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operating this exhibit is borne ahnost entirely ])y the Agricultural 

 Society, and inasmuch as it furnishes a means of interesting a large 

 number of people in the fisheries of the State your Commission has 

 readily assented to continue it. 



CO-OPERATION WITH FISHERIES AUTHORITIES. 



As heretofore in accord with the duties as prescribed by the General 

 Assembly, your Commission has been in close touch with the fisheries 

 boards of various states and abroad. The work of the Commission 

 has continued to attract considerable attention as evidenced by the 

 frequent requests referred to this Commission by the United States 

 Bureau of Fisheries. 



In July, Capt. W. B. Clementson, Fishery Officer of the North 

 Eastern Sea Fisheries Committee of England, was sent over from 

 England to study the methods used in this country to propagate 

 lobsters. In his official report he expressed the conclusions he had 

 reached as follows: ''After carefully reviewing and considering the 

 different means of hatching as used in the various States, I think the 

 Rhode Island method as in vogue at Wickford, is the best and can be 

 successfully carried out in this country." 



Requests for data and descriptions of our methods of lobster 

 propagation have l^een received from officials in Austria, Canada and 

 Spain. 



THE PROPAGATION OF LOBSTERS AT THE WICKFORD 

 EXPERIMENT STATION. 



The lobster rearing at Wickford in 1912 Avas the most successful 

 the station has ever had, not only from the point of the number of 

 lobsters reared to the Ijottom stages, but also from the number per 

 egg lobster and percentage returns from the fry. The season opened 

 May 24 and closed in the early part of August. The number of 

 lobsters reared to the bottom stages was 521,861. The young lob- 



