AMERICAN CATFISHES. 25 



In Lake Ontario the same apparatus was used as in the other lakes, 

 excepting that no catfish were recorded for gill nets and lines. 



Middle Atlantic States. — The most recent available data here, for 

 1904, show that in New Jersey by far the largest quantity of catfish 

 were taken in seines, although some were taken in pound nets. 



In Pennsylvania, while seines and fish baskets were also used, fyke 

 nets yielded the largest catch. 



In Delaware, while fairly large catches are recorded for gill nets, 

 pound nets, and seines, the fyke nets far exceed them in amount. The 

 same is the case in Maryland. Here, however, there is recorded a 

 small line catch. 



The apparatus listed for Virginia comprises pound nets, seines, 

 lines, gill nets, fyke nets, weirs, and slat traps, of which fyke nets, 

 closely followed by pound nets, were most effective. 



South Atlantic States. — In 1902 it was found that gill nets, pound 

 nets, fyke nets, catch wheels, slides, and lines were used in North 

 Carolina, pound nets yielding the largest and lines the smallest catch. 



The only apparatus used in South Carolina that appears to have 

 taken any catfish is the seine. 



In Georgia catfish were taken by pound nets and lines only, the 

 lines yielding about twice the amount of the other. It is probable 

 that here the line fishery is the special one for catfish, and the pound- 

 net catch more or less incidental. 



In east Florida but three methods seem to have been used in the 

 fishery — seines, pound nets, and lines. Here, however, the seine 

 records the greatest catch, followed by the line, the pound net yield- 

 ing the smallest quantity. 



Gulf States. — In this region, according to data for 1902, trap nets 

 took the largest catch in western Florida, only one other method, 

 the line, being employed. 



In Alabama trammel nets, seines, and lines are credited with 

 catches of catfish. The first far exceeded the other two together, 

 while in Mississippi the same apparatus was used, but the linefishery 

 more than quadrupled the other two together. 



In Mississippi seines, fyke nets, and lines are listed as apparatus 

 that took catfish, of which the line fishery more than fourteen times 

 exceeds the other two combined. 



The report on the Mississippi River and its tributaries for 1899 credits 

 catfish to fyke nets, lines, and spears in Indiana, of which fyke nets 

 were the most effective. In Illinois seines, trammel nets, fyke nets, 

 pound nets, set lines, drift lines, hand lines, and traps were listed, 

 of which set lines are credited with the largest catch, closely followed 

 by seines and fyke nets. Kentucky is recorded as using seines, fyke 

 nets, trammel nets, cast nets, dip nets, set lines, hand lines, and drift 

 lines, set lines yielding the largest catch and fyke nets a close second. 



