VI CONTENTS. 



Chart I, Block Island Traps. 

 Chart II, Watch Hill Traps. 

 Chart III, Narragansett Bay Traps. 



Other Traps 32 



Deep-Water Fishing off Newport, 1911 35 



Table VII, Calendar of Soup Season, 1905-1911 37 



Table VIII, Calendar of Mackerel Season, 1905-1911 37 



Table IX, Appearance of "Tinker" Mackerel, 1905-1911 38 



Table X, Catch of Squiteague in Soup Traps, 1905-1911 38 



Table XI, First Appearance of Various Marketable Fish in Traps 



off Newport, 1905-1911 38 



Hon. D. B. Fessing's Collection of R. I. Fishes 39 



Chapter III. Enforcement of State Laws 40 



List of Prosecutions 40 



Summary of Supreme Court Decision on Lobster License Law 41 



Changes made in the Fisheries Laws 42 



Chapter IV. Physical and Biological Conditions of Narragansett Bay. . 43 



Chart showing Average Weekly Temperature of Air and Sea Water 

 at Wickford, 1911. 



Chapter V. The Dissemination of Information Concerning the Aquatic 



Resources of the State 44 



Chapter VI. Co-operation with other Fisheries Authorities 45 



Chapter VII. Propagation of Lobsters at the Wickford Experiment 



Station 46 



Chapter VIII. Propagation of Marine Fisheries 48 



The Winter Flounder 48 



Appendix 



A. The Decision of the Suijreme Court in State vs. Constantine 

 Kofines et al 49 



B. List of Federal and State Fisheries Authorities, 1911 78 



C. Titles of Special Papers PubUshed by the Commissioners of 

 Inland Fisheries, 1897-1912 87 



