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REPORT 



7o the Honorable General Asserahly of the State of Rhode Island, etc., 

 at its January Session, 1890: 



The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries herewith present their An- 

 nual Report for the year 1889 : 



SHAD. 



We received through Col. M. McDonald, U. S. Fish Commissioner, 

 about three million shad fry, sent in their special tank car. These 

 were placed in Palmer river, at Shad Factory, it being, in the estima- 

 tion of the Commissioners, the waters best suited to them, as there are 

 no insurmountable dams or other serious obstructions to their return. 

 The only expense to the State for this large installment of shad fry was 

 the transportation from car to river. 



TROUT. 



The Commissioners have distributed personally and through others 

 interested in the increase of fishes in our inland waters, nearly ten 

 thousand (10,000) trout fry and yearling trout in the various public 

 streams and ponds of our State. The past open season for trout fish- 

 ing (from March 1 to August 15) has demonstrated to the entire satis- 

 faction of your Commissioners that their efforts in this direction, as well 

 as those of their predecessors, have not been useless, neither have the 

 expenditures of the State's moneys been lost to it. That such is the 

 fact need not be told by us, as ample evidence can be obtained from 



