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Table 2.—Concluded 
Loca, Name 
Walleye, yellow pikeperch, 
Jack, jack salmon 
AccePpTED ComMMon NAME Scientiric NAME 
Yellow walleye.......... Stizostedion vitreum vitreum (Mitchill)...... 
SIRUEELETOS eee gene ee Stizostedion canadense (Smith)............. Sandpike, jack salmon 
Smallmouth bass........| Micropterus dolomieu Lacépéde............ Smallmouth, smallmouth 
black bass 
Spotted bass... ....2.2-:- Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque).......| Kentucky bass, spotted 
black bass 
Micropterus salmoides (Lacépéde).......... Black bass, bigmouth bass, 
line side, green bass, green 
trout, largemouth black 
bass 
Black perch 
Largemouth bass........ 
Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque............. 
Lenomisshumiis (Girard!) seme oe 
Green sunfish........... 
Orangespotted sunfish... . 
|B heevearl Le eas alesse One Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque........... Bream, sunfish 
Warmouths.....-2.....: Chaenobryttus coronarius (Bartram)........ Goggle-eye, warmouth bass 
[PUES > ares ole ey epee arene Centrarchus macropterus (Lacépéde)........ Round sunfish, longfinned 
sunfish, round bass 
Crappie, newlight 
Calico bass, strawberry bass 
Silver bass, striped bass, 
streaker 
Streaker, barfish 
White perch, perch, sheeps- 
head, gaspergou, grunting 
perch, croaker 
Pomoxts annularis Rafinesque............. 
Pomoxis nigro-maculatus (Le Sueur)........ 
Lepibema chrysops (Rafinesque)........... 
White crappie........... 
Blackicrappie. cares... 
WVhite bass... 3. ced.et ee. 
MoronemnterrupiaGille. eae ee 
Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque.......... 
Mellow sbasst. sa. c ten: 
Freshwater drum........ 
* Because of the pressure of field work, most of the fish handled in the test-net collections could be classified only 
to species. Some, however, could be classified further, and the following subspecies are believed to have been repre- 
sented in the sampling: Lepisosteus osseus oxyurus Rafinesque, northern longnose gar; Carpiodes carpio carpio 
(Rafinesque), northern carpsucker; Catostoimus commersonnti commersonniti (Lacépéde), white sucker; Notemigonus 
crysoleucas auratus (Rafinesque), western golden shiner: IJctalurus furcatus furcatus (Valenciennes), blue catfish; 
Ameiurus natalis natalis (Le Sueur), northern yellow bullhead; Ameiurus nebulosus marmoratus (Holbrook), brown 
bullhead; Ameiurus melas melas (Rafinesque), northern black bullhead; Stizostedion canadense canadense (Smith), 
eastern sauger; Micropterus dolomieu dolomieu Lacépéde, northern smallmouth bass; Micropterus punctulatus punctu- 
latus (Rafinesque), northern spotted bass; Lepomis macrochirus macrochirus Rafinesque, common bluegill. The spotted 
gar, Lepisosteus productus Cope, if present, was not separated from the shortnose gar. Accepted common and scien- 
tific names in the table are from Special Bulletin No. 1 of the American Fisheries Society (1948) or from amend- 
ments accepted by the Society (Bailey 1952, 1953); most subspecific names in the footnote are from Hubbs & Lagler 
(1947). 
fishermen reported having caught in that 
year 2,788,073 pounds of fish valued in 
the rough at $297,045.23 (Starrett & 
Parr 1951:7, 10). During 1950, accord- 
ing to the Upper Mississippi River Con- 
servation Committee (1952:35, 37) re- 
port, 590 licensed commercial fishermen 
of Missouri caught 330,488 pounds of fish 
from the Mississippi River. This same 
report lists the total Iowa catch from the 
Mississippi at 839.211 pounds. The Iowa 
catch was made by 2,200 licensed com- 
mercial fishermen. The Iowa report in- 
cludes data on fishing activities above and 
below Dubuque. 
The most important commercial fishes 
included in the figures above were carp, 
black buffalo. smallmouth buffalo, big- 
mouth buffalo, channel catfish, flathead 
catfish, blue catfish, freshwater drum, 
paddlefish, and shovelnose sturgeon. 
Hoop nets, seines, basket traps, tram- 
mel nets, and trot lines were the princi- 
pal types of commercial fishing devices 
employed by these fishermen. 
Terminology for Commercial 
Fishing Devices 
The vernacular names of commercial 
fishing devices used on the Mississippi 
River are often quite confusing. In an 
attempt to correct this situation, members 
of the Upper Mississippi River Conser- 
vation Committee (1946:9) defined and 
classified the commercial fishing devices 
used on the upper part of the river. 
The committee separated the various 
fishing devices into broad classifications 
based on the methods by which the de- 
vices capture fish. The four principal 
methods of capture are angling, encom- 
passment, entrapment, and entanglement. 
Each method is treated separately in the 
