Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries: Made to the General Assembly at Its January Session, A. D. 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. If we 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. 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.