664 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
A newly deseribed species of fish, which has recently been identified 
as Ohio shad (Alosa o/zensis), is reported in the present statistics of 
this region. The catch was taken in the Ohio River in West Virginia, 
Indiana, and Kentucky, and aggregated 6,955 pounds, valued at $355. 
The greater part of this quantity was obtained with seines in the 
vicinity of Louisville, Ky. A few were also secured in fyke nets and 
gill nets. It is probable that this species has been taken to some 
extent in these waters for a number of years. 
In the yield of the fisheries of this region the leading States are IIli- 
nois and Iowa, the former being credited with 28,479,807 pounds of 
products, valued at $579,168, and the latter with 23,901,922 pounds, val- 
ued at $207,801. Wisconsin ranks next in the quantity of products, 
having 17,236,735 pounds, valued at $88,139. The fishery products of 
Missouri amounted to 7,551,442 pounds, worth $211,301, and those of 
Arkansas to 4,896,591 pounds, worth $168,071, the value of the prod- 
ucts in each of these two States being about twice that of Wisconsin. 
In Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin, the States leading in the 
quantity of products, the yield consists largely of mussel shells, which 
are utilized in the pearl-button industry. Other States yielding over 
1,000,000 pounds of products were Tennessee, 2,774,560 pounds, valued 
at $87,537; Mississippi, 3,920,942 pounds, valued at $97,711; Minne- 
sota, 1,822,171 pounds, valued at $40,258; Louisiana, 1,942,185 pounds, 
valued at $57,072, and Kentucky, 1,753,278 pounds, valued at $78,899. 
In each of the other States participating in the fisheries of the Missis- 
sippi and its tributaries the quantity of products was considerably less 
than a million pounds. 
The principal items in the fisheries of Illinois were German carp, 
9,896,499 pounds, worth $244,322; buffalo-fish, 4,050,941 pounds, worth 
$111,707; mussel shells, 8,910,000 pounds, worth $48,468, and cat-fish, 
1,569,615 pounds, worth $68,535. In Iowa the yield of mussel shells, 
the most important item in the fisheries, amounted to 20,354,000 pounds, 
valued at $97,449, and of German carp, which was next in importance, 
1,039,375 pounds, valued at $22,518. In Mississippi more than half of 
the catch, or 2,023,230 pounds, valued at $33,747, consisted of buffalo- 
fish, and in Arkansas nearly half the catch, or 2,388,890 pounds, worth 
$52,521, was comprised of that species. In Missouri the catch of 
buffalo-fish was 1,862,226 pounds, valued at $44,743, and of mussel 
shells, 2,084,000 pounds, worth $9,217. In Wisconsin the yield of 
mussel shells was 16,260,000 pounds, worth $66,110. In the remain- 
ing States of this region the yield of any one species was less than a 
million pounds. Cat-fish constituted a considerable part of the catch 
in certain States, as follows: Arkansas, 838,514 pounds, worth $42,044; 
Iowa, 750,678 pounds, worth $37,845; Missouri, 875,050 pounds, worth 
$40,755; Tennessee, 708,260 pounds, worth $24,289; and Louisiana, 
682,347 pounds, worth $22,373. In Missouri the yield of German carp 
was 453,250 pounds, worth $9,447. Turtles and terrapin were im- 
