38 COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



ill this country and abroad and occasion is here taken to thankfully 

 acknowledge the courtesies received. 



The meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Boston was 

 attended by the members of your Commission. Two of their number 

 were elected to important offices. 



THE PROPAGATION OF LOBSTERS AT THE WICKFORD 

 HATCHERY AND EXPERIMENT STATION. 



The lobster rearing at Wickford in 1913 in point of numbers was 

 not as successful as in the previous year owing to the lack of egg 

 lobsters during the rearing season. The unusually warm winter had 

 caused the eggs to hatch before the egg lobsters were taken which 

 resulted m a fewer number of spawners in the earlier part of the year. 

 No miusual features are to be noted in reportuig on the season's work, 

 although it should be stated that all the fry were reared beyond the 

 fourth stage before they were liberated. The season opened May 

 31st, and closed in the earlier part of August. 



