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To the Honorable General ‘Assembly, January Session, 1875: 
The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries beg leave to present 
their Fifth Annual Report. 
The past year has been an encouraging one for our department, 
on the whole. Ifwe have met with some disappointments, we have 
at least learned what to avoid in the future; and our successes 
prompt us to continue the good work during the coming year, with 
high hopes of doing the State some service. <A further supply of 
young shad and salmon have been placed in all the principal 
streams of the State this year; the number and location of which 
is herein specified. 
State Hatching Establishment. Everything is in excellent 
order and good repair at the hatching house in Ponegansett. We 
have retained the services of Mr. Wm. Colwell, who gives his 
entire time to the superintendence of the establishment, and gives 
full satisfaction to the Commissioners. 
salmon. We received from Mr. Charles G. Atkins, superin- 
tendent of the Penobscot Salmon Spawning enterprise at Bucks- 
port, Maine, 125,000 salmon ova, as the share of this State. 
Professor Spercer F. Baird, sent us on the part of the Govern- 
ment, about 92,000 salmon ova, making a total of 217,000 ova, 
which arrived in excellent order. About 5 per cent. were lost in 
hatching, which gave us abcut 200,000 young. We were un- 
fortunate in losing some by muskrats, but only a comparatively 
