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To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, 
elc., at its January Session, 1889: 
The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries herewith present their An- 
nual Report for the year 1888. 
SALMON. 
February 8, 1888, the Commissioners received fifty thousand (50,000) 
salmon eggs from the United States Fish Commission, which were very 
successfully hatched with a loss of two per cent., by Mr. C. A. Hoxie, 
at his hatchery at Carolina, R. I. 
These were placed in the head-waters of the Pawcatuck river and 
Warwick brook in Warwick, with a small loss in transportation. 
The ten thousand land locked salmon eggs received from the United 
States Fish Commission the previous year were hatched at the same 
place. The experiment of raising the fry artificially until they were 
more than a year old proved decidedly successful. All previous efforts 
to stock our ponds with this valuable fish proving failures, we believe 
that our experience with this lot justifies us in the belief that we can 
succeed in stocking our largest and deepest ponds. 
They were put in Long and White ponds in South Kingstown, and 
Carr’s pond in West Greenwich, these waters being in the opinion of 
the Commissioners best adapted to their habits. 
TROUT. 
The Commissioners purchased thirty-seven thousand (37,000) trout 
