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REPORT. 



To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, etc., 

 at its January Session, 1888 : 



The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries herewith present their annual 

 report for the year 1887 : 



In March, 1887, ten thousand (10,000) laud-locked salmon spawn 

 were received by us from the U. S. Fish Commission and sent to C. A. 

 Hoxie's hatchery at Carolina, R. I., where they have been hatched 

 with a loss of one per cent. An arrangement was entered into with 

 Mr. Hoxie by which he will take charge of them until they are a year 

 old, when the Commissioners will have them distributed in various 

 waters of the State adapted to their nature. 



TROUT. 



One hundred and five thousand (105,000) brook trout fry were pur- 

 chased by us. Forty thousand of these were placed in various public 

 streams by the Commissioners. The balance, by persons interested, 

 in the towns of Summit, East and West Greenwich, Greenville, North 

 and South Kingstown, Mapleville, Westerly, Pascoag, Exeter, Smith- 

 field, Warwick, Arcadia, North Scituate, Johnston, Hope Valley, Woon- 

 socket, and North Providence. Great interest is taken in the effort to 



