

REPORT. 



To ihe HnnorahJe the General Assemhly of the State of Rhode hJand, 

 January Session, 1S81. 



The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries beg leave to present their 

 report for the year 1881. 



In the report for the year 1880, diagrams were given of the traps 

 set at Seaconnet Point and at the south end of the island of Rhode 

 Island, and also of the location of all the heart nets in Narragansett 

 Bay. It has been thought best not to go to this expense this year. 

 The sets of the traps are about the same from one year to another. The 

 heart nets or pounds vary more in locality, and were all visited and 

 marked on the chart by the commissioners in July and August last. 

 They found forty-one (41) of these pounds in active operation, an 

 increase of ten (10) over the year previous. 



The commissioners appointed the same deputies as in 1879, as they 

 supposed they were the persons who were best adapted by their former 

 experience for the office. 



The catch of scup in the traps this Spring was not so large as usual, 

 and was estimated to be less by two-thirds than that of 1879, but 

 prices were better, and it is to be supposed most of the filshermen re- 

 ceived a fair price for their labor. So far as the trap fishing is con- 

 cerned the commissioners have seen no reason to change their views 

 given in their last report to 3-our Honorable Body, and respectfully 

 refer to their report for 1880, as it is hardly worth while to go over 

 the matter a second time. 



In that report they recommend the line established by Chapter 751, 



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