730 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Summary, by apparatus and waters, of the fisheries of Minnesota in 1899. 






























| 
Apparatus and waters. Lbs. Value. || Apparatus and waters. Lbs. Value. 
| 
Wu ey A pee ae = | ea As 
Hand lines: | | Pound nets: 
Mississippi River ....-... 14, 435 | $662 || Mississippi River ...-.-- 10, 250 $436 
St CroixgRiver: 2.2---22 2, 080 | 9341\", (St. CroixsRiver--- se: 2: 105, 675 | 2, 222 
Miscellaneous lakes ..-- 326, 697 9,577 || _— ae 
| Potale.eecessceceee 115, 925 2, 658 
TOtHIos. SeReeeeeeaae 343, 212 10, 382 || 
= Gill nets: 
Set lines: St. Croix River ...-.--- 1, 000 50 
Mississippi River ..-...- 138, 060 | 4,114 | Trammel nets: 
St. Croim River ss. 522.2 14,715 548 Mississippi River .-...-- 55, 815 1, 323 
= Seoop nets: 
Ota sees pose 8 102775 4, 662 Miscellaneous lakes ~~. 18, 055 1, 324 
Crowfoot lines: | Spears: | 
Mississippi River ......- 40, 000 160 || St. Croix River ....-..- 111, 700 | 2,475 
Miscellaneous lakes -.. 21,500 | 410 
Seines: | | —_—_|—_— 
Mississippi River .....-- 267, 915 5, 873 | Totaly eae coe 1338, 200 2, 885 
StaCroixRiviereseeeesas 43, 225 929 | oe 
| Other apparatus: 
Motailictrs sassceeecee 311, 140 6, 802 Miscellaneous lakes --. 74, 199 8, 285 
Fyke nets: || Total by waters: 
Mississippi River -..-...-- 75, 400 | 1,744 Mississippi River ...--. 601, 875 14, 312 
St CroixRivers... 2.2 1, 450 33 St. Crom River sss522s- 279, 845 6, 350 
Miscellaneous lakes --. 440,451 | 19, 596 
Motaliess peace e ne | 76, 850 | evict a 
| Grand total ........ 1,322,171 | 40, 258 



SOUTH DAKOTA. 
In South Dakota the number of persons participating in the fisheries 
was 72, and the capital invested amounted to $1,781. The yield was 
135,893 pounds, valued at $6,941, the greater part of which consisted 
of buffalo-fish and cat-fish. 
The Missouri River is the principal fish-producing stream in South 
Dakota. It flows through the State for a distance of nearly 500 miles. 
The Dakota section of this river contains few varieties of fish, the most 
abundant being cat-fish, buffalo-fish, carp, suckers, and sturgeon. In 
the clearer waters of the adjacent bayous and the tributary streams 
other varieties are found, such as grass pike, pike perch (wall-eyed), 
bullheads, etc. Several varieties of cat-fish are found, but the channel 
cat is by far the most abundant. 
At the various settlements along the banks of the Missouri there 
are a few persons who devote a portion or the whole of their time 
from April to October to fishing. The principal resorts for the 
fishermen are Littlebend, Pierre, Chamberlain, Yankton Agency, 
Niobrara, Yankton, Vermilion, and Elk Point. At each of these 
localities a number of set lines, bait nets, and occasionally seines and 
trammel nets are employed, either in the main stream or at the mouths 
of the tributaries, but the catch is small and all of it is marketed in 
the immediate vicinity. Some risk attends the setting of fixed appa- 
ratus in the Missouri, because of the liability of its being covered up 
or borne away by the shifting sand; and numerous snags and the 
shifting bottom restrict the use of seines. 
