Excerpt from Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries, Made to the General Assembly at Its January Session, 1903 The work of the commission on the clam problem has resulted in definite information on the season and manner of breeding, the rate of growth, the dependence of the rate of growth upon various conditions of location, etc., the distribution of clams in the Bay, the age at which clams begin to breed, the age at which they at tain edible size, the effect of excessive digging, the effect of natural enemies and of churning, also the effect of setting aside areas of shore which shall not be dug, and the impossibility of absolute extermination. Among the most important results of this work are the methods devised of catching the spat, of assisting nature to restock the shores by sowing young clams, and the progress in artificial clam culture. 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.