REPORT. 



To the IlonoraUe General Assemhhj, January Session, 1874: 



The Commissioners of InlaDcl Fisheries beg leave to present 

 their fourth annual report : 



The year past has, on the whole, been a very satisfactory one 

 in our department. A number of ponds have been stocked Avith 

 black bass ; a farther supply of young shad have been placed in 

 the three principal streams of the State, together with younj; sal- 

 mon and trout, the number and location of which is herein speci- 

 fied. 



A fishway has been completed over the dam at the mouth of the 

 Pawtuxet, and Ave are glad to report an increasing interest in the 

 public mind in regard to our labors. 



STATE HATCHING ESTABLISHMENT. 



/Salmon. There were received from Mr. Atkins, of Maine, one 

 hundred thousand salmon eggs as our proportion of the result of 

 his operations the past year, at an expense of $450. 



Of this number, we were successful in hatching sixty-six thou- 

 sand. Twelve thousand five hundred of these Avere placed in the 

 Slatersville branch of the Blackstone river, at fourteen diflerent 

 points. Sixteen thousand Avere placed in the north-Avest branch 

 of the PaAvtuxet, from Hopkins' Mills in Foster, to Poutiac, at 

 eighteen different points. 



On the south-Avest branch, from Quidneck pond to River Point, 

 eight thousand were put at sixteen different points. 



