REPORT. 



To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, &c., 

 at its January Session, 1876 : 



The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries submit llieir sixth annual 

 report. 



STATE HATCHING ESTABLISHMENT. 



In our hatching house and appurtenances, we have no noted improve- 

 ments to record, as these were already very satisfactorj' and adequate 

 for oin- purpose. 



Mr. William Colwell has just entered upon his third 3'ear at the hatch- 

 ing establishment, and in him we still find an efficient Superintendent. 



Salmon. In October we received through Professor Baird 100,000 Cali- 

 fornia Salmon ova, but owing to their protracted transportation, they ar- 

 rived in a very unpromising condition, and about one-third of them proved 

 to be worthless. 



The 65,000 that we were successful in hatching, were distributed as 

 follows: 20,000 in the Pawcatuck river; 10,000 in the Slatersville 

 branch of the Blackstone, and the remainder in the Pawtuxet and its 

 tributaries. 



We also received 200,000 Salmon ova from Mr. C. G. Atkins, Superin- 

 tendent of the Penobscot Salmon Enterprise, at Bucksport, Maine. 



In hatching these we still had ill luck, for they were too fur advanced 

 when shipped, but we hatched 125,000 from the lot. 15,000 were placed 

 in the Slatersville branch of the Blackstone, and 1 10,000 in the Pawtuxet, 

 at various points along the south branch, from Pontiac village, in War- 

 wick, to the new reservoir in Coventry, and in the north branch, com- 



