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U. S, BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



IOWA 



In 1922 there were 794 fishermen, 3,131 shoresmen, and 5 men on 

 transporting vessels engaged in the fisheries and related industries 

 qi Iowa, and an investment in boats, apparatus, shore propertv, and 

 cash capital of $1,981,570, giving the State first place among those in 

 the Mississippi Valley both in number of persons engaged and in- 

 vestment. This is due to its pearl-button industrv, centered at 

 Muscatine, where it was first established in 1891. The total fishery 

 production of the State amounted to 6,760,(362 pounds, valued at 

 $326,177, of which 2,453,000 pounds, valued at $56,793, belong to 

 the mussel industry. The more important species of fish were carp, 

 catfish, buffalofish, and drum or sheepshead. 



The most important fisheries in this State are located on the Mis- 

 sissippi River, where the production in 1922 amounted to 77 per cent 

 m amount and 82 per cent in value of the total output of fish and 

 mussel shells in this State. Some fishing of lesser importance was 

 done in various lakes and rivers under supervision of game wardens. 



The following tables show in detail the statistics of the fisheries of 

 this State in 1922: 



Persons engaged and investment in the fisheries of Iowa, 1922 



' Includes crew of one transporting vessel. 



2 Includes one transporting vessel of 14 net tonnage, valued at $^1,0(X). 



