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  REPORT 
  OP 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  rivers. 
  As 
  the 
  seasou 
  wore 
  on 
  the 
  agents 
  worked 
  southward, 
  and 
  dur- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  colder 
  months 
  the 
  inquiries 
  in 
  the 
  Southern 
  States 
  were 
  resumed. 
  

   Some 
  special 
  examinations 
  of 
  the 
  lisheries 
  of 
  certain 
  extreme 
  Eastern 
  

   an<l 
  Western 
  States 
  were 
  also 
  made. 
  

  

  By 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  the 
  canvass 
  of 
  the 
  interior 
  streams 
  and 
  lakes 
  

   had 
  been 
  conjpleted. 
  A 
  full 
  report 
  on 
  the 
  investigation 
  is 
  in 
  prepara- 
  

   tion 
  and 
  will 
  soon 
  be 
  issued. 
  The 
  States 
  in 
  which 
  in(]uiries 
  were 
  

   conducted 
  during 
  the 
  present 
  year 
  were 
  Vermont, 
  New 
  York, 
  AVest 
  

   Virginia, 
  Ohio, 
  Kentucky, 
  Indiana, 
  Illinois, 
  Wisconsin, 
  Minnesota, 
  

   Iowa, 
  Missouri, 
  Kansas, 
  Nebraska, 
  South 
  Dakota, 
  Nevada, 
  Utah, 
  

   Idaho, 
  and 
  California. 
  A 
  brief 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  extent 
  of 
  the 
  fisheries 
  

   in 
  each 
  of 
  these 
  will 
  be 
  given. 
  In 
  the 
  last 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  division 
  an 
  

   outline 
  of 
  the 
  extent 
  of 
  the 
  fresh-water 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Louisiana, 
  Missis- 
  

   si 
  [»pi, 
  Alabama, 
  Arkansas, 
  and 
  Tennessee 
  was 
  presented. 
  

  

  The 
  agents 
  participating 
  in 
  the 
  canvass 
  of 
  these 
  States 
  and 
  the 
  ter- 
  

   ritory 
  covered 
  by 
  them 
  were 
  as 
  follows: 
  John 
  N. 
  Cobb, 
  Vermont 
  and 
  

   New 
  York; 
  W. 
  A. 
  Wilcox 
  and 
  T. 
  M. 
  Cogswell, 
  all 
  of 
  Minnesota 
  and 
  

   Kansas, 
  and 
  parts 
  of 
  Illinois, 
  Iowa, 
  Kentucky, 
  Missouri, 
  Nebraska, 
  

   and 
  Wisconsin; 
  C. 
  H. 
  Stevenson, 
  South 
  Dakota 
  and 
  p;irts 
  of 
  Illinois, 
  

   Iowa, 
  Missouri, 
  and 
  Nebraska; 
  Ausley 
  Hall, 
  parts 
  of 
  West 
  Virginia, 
  

   Ohio, 
  Indiana, 
  Kentucky, 
  Illinois, 
  Wisconsin, 
  Missouri, 
  and 
  Iowa; 
  

   C. 
  E. 
  Ingersoll, 
  parts 
  of 
  Indiana, 
  Ohio, 
  and 
  Kentucky; 
  B. 
  Clapham, 
  

   parts 
  of 
  \Vest 
  Virginia, 
  Ohio, 
  and 
  Indiana; 
  William 
  Barnum, 
  part 
  of 
  

   Idaho; 
  E. 
  A. 
  Tulian, 
  Colorado, 
  Utah, 
  and 
  part 
  of 
  Idaho; 
  A. 
  B. 
  Alex- 
  

   ander, 
  Nevada 
  and 
  California. 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  not 
  considered 
  necessary 
  to 
  prosecute 
  inquiries 
  in 
  any 
  other 
  

   interior 
  States, 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  small 
  amount 
  of 
  economic 
  fishing 
  carried 
  

   on 
  because 
  of 
  the 
  limited 
  resources, 
  the 
  existence 
  of 
  restrictive 
  laws, 
  

   or 
  otlier 
  conditions 
  militating 
  against 
  the 
  industry. 
  

  

  The 
  fisheries 
  of 
  the 
  interior 
  waters 
  of 
  the 
  country, 
  as 
  shown 
  by 
  the 
  

   inquiries 
  of 
  this 
  division, 
  had 
  the 
  following 
  extent 
  in 
  1804. 
  These 
  fig- 
  

   ures 
  are 
  given 
  ])rovisionally, 
  and 
  are 
  liable 
  to 
  slight 
  changes 
  when 
  tlie 
  

   final 
  tabuhitions 
  are 
  made. 
  In 
  these 
  statistics, 
  it 
  should 
  be 
  understood, 
  

   no 
  account 
  is 
  taken 
  of 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  the 
  Great 
  Lakes 
  nor 
  of 
  any 
  of 
  

   the 
  coast 
  rivers, 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  covere'd 
  in 
  previous 
  reports 
  of 
  the 
  

   Commission. 
  

  

  Persons 
  employed 
  11, 
  282 
  

  

  Boats 
  used 
  8, 
  844 
  

  

  Value 
  of 
  boiits 
  $241,367 
  

  

  Val 
  lie 
  of 
  apparatus 
  of 
  capture 
  . 
  . 
  $376, 
  748 
  

  

  Value 
  of 
  other 
  i)roperty 
  $104, 
  203 
  

  

  Total 
  capital 
  invested' 
  $722. 
  328 
  

  

  Pounds 
  of 
  products 
  taken 
  .55, 
  415, 
  400 
  

  

  Value 
  of 
  yield 
  to 
  llsliermeu. 
  . 
  . 
  $1, 
  791, 
  145 
  

  

  Vermont. 
  — 
  An 
  examination 
  of 
  the 
  commercial 
  fisheries 
  of 
  \ 
  ermont 
  

   was 
  made 
  in 
  January 
  and 
  February, 
  181)(5. 
  The 
  only 
  fishing 
  of 
  a 
  busi- 
  

   ness 
  character 
  is 
  done 
  in 
  Lake 
  Champlain 
  and 
  the 
  tributary 
  streams. 
  

   The 
  industry 
  has 
  varied 
  considerably 
  in 
  extent 
  in 
  recent 
  years, 
  owing 
  

   to 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  in 
  1803 
  and 
  1895 
  seining 
  was 
  permitted, 
  while 
  in 
  1801 
  

   the 
  use 
  of 
  seines 
  was 
  prohibited. 
  In 
  1801: 
  and 
  1805, 
  the 
  two 
  years 
  

   covered 
  by 
  the 
  investigation, 
  the 
  fisheries 
  had 
  the 
  following 
  extent, 
  

  

  