8 lieport on Inland Fisheries. 



We would remark here that the allusion that Mr. Root makes as to 

 none of the ponds being screened and the fish liable to leave them, is 

 exactlj^what we want for the good of the State, for the black bass has a 

 happy faculty of pushing his wa}' to ever}^ accessible water and stocking 

 it with his species. 



Such results are ver}' gratifj-ing to the Commissioners, showing that 

 their labors have not been in vain, and if, as is doubtless the case, ill 

 luck has rewarded the efforts of some of our good people in their efforts 

 to capture the black bass, they must lay their lack of success, not to the 

 absence of the fish, but to their want of knowledge of how tj capture 

 him, which will come in good time, by experience. 



We append a list of the ponds thus far stocked, with date : 



1870, June and July. 



Wauchog Poud '• iu Charlestown. 



Moswansicut iu Scituate. 



Sneacli iu Cumberland. 



Herriug in Burrillville. 



1871, June and July. 



Steere in Scituate. 



Hope in Scituate. 



Pouegausett Co - iu Scituate. 



Searle's .in Foster. 



Spear's iu Foster. 



Scott's iu Lonsdale. 



New Reservoir in Lonsdale. 



Warwick in Warwick. 



Gorton iu Warwick. 



1872, June and July. 



Stafford in Tiverton. 



Easton's , iu Newport and Middletown. 



1873, June and July. 



Yawgoo iu South Kingstown. 



Wordeu's in Soutli Kingstown. 



Bellville in Nprth Kiugstown. 



Johusou's in Coventry. 



Wickaboxet iu West Greenwich. 



Deep iu Exeter. 



Yawgook ...in Hopkiuton. 



Eaton's in Newport. 



Two Ponds •on Block Island. 



Most of these fish were two years old and upwards. 



1874. 

 Blue poud in Hopkiuton. 



