Excerpt from Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries: Made to the General Assembly at Its January Session, 1916 These considerations have led your Commission, for the past two years to seriously consider the advisability of constructing a small fresh-water hatchery as the best means of supplying this growing need of our State. A need which is not confined to the Sportsman alone, but to every individual in our State who enjoys a day's outing on the banks of one of our beautiful streams or ponds with the pleasure and satisfaction of catching a good mess of fish. At a moderate initial outlay sufficient to cover the purchase of the site and the construction of artificial ponds. A hatchery suitable for our needs could be built. A location could be obtained close to our present marine hatchery at Wickford which would enable us to use - to a great extent - the men already employed there. Then at a Small annual expenditure many times the number of fish which we can now supply would be available for the waters of our State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.