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Title: Annual report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries made to the General Assembly
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Rhode Island. Commissioners of Inland Fisheries
Subjects: Fisheries -- Rhode Island Fishery law and legislation -- Rhode Island
Publisher: Providence, The Commissioners
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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e will further insure thelives of the lobsters liberated; but for practical rearing purposes thefourth stage is probably sufficient. 11. Liberation of (he Egg Lobsters. After the eggs are scraped or hatched from the hen lobster, a coppertag with a serial number and the words Return to the R. I. FishCommission^ is fastened securely with fine wnre to the lobstersbeak. (Plate XXV.) Then, after the length and other data of in-terest have been recorded, they are liberated at various places in theBay. The tags of those caught are returned by the lobstermen, witha record of the date and place captured. Considerable informationis thus collected in regard to the migration of the lobsters, and, sincethe lobster in molting casts off the tag together with the old shell,some data is obtained in regard to the length of time before moltingafter the eggs are hatched. 12. Conditions Most Essential for the Location of a Rearing Plant.The experience of the past five seasons in the operation of the plant
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i-K ,^^^ XXV.—Adult lobster with copper ta^ attached to beak. Lobsters thus tagged areiiDeratea at certam stations, and lobstermen are requested to return such tags, if retalien,U) ide Commission, giving date and place of capture. Valuable information on the move-ments of lobsters has been obtained by this method. REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 151 -at Wickford has made it evident that, for the proper location of astation for rearing lobsters, two conditions especially must be sought.These conditions are quiet water and warm water. It is not essentialin the least to have the station near the place where egg lobstersare obtained most abundantly, for the lobsters may be shipped withlittle injury. Shelter from storms and ocean swells is obviously avery important factor. The plant described above, though evidently but a skeletonstructure, is nevertheless capable of withstanding quite a heavy sea.In the summer of 1903 it was subjected to one of the worst stormsfor years alo

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