﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
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  $43,325. 
  Between 
  350,000 
  and 
  400,000 
  pounds 
  each 
  of 
  bufialo-fisli, 
  

   suckers, 
  and 
  fresh-water 
  drum 
  were 
  taken. 
  Other 
  x)roducts 
  obtained, 
  

   in 
  quantities 
  ranging 
  from 
  20,000 
  to 
  100,000 
  pounds, 
  are 
  wall-eyed 
  pike, 
  

   sturgeon, 
  sunfish, 
  black 
  bass, 
  crappy, 
  pike, 
  white 
  and 
  rock 
  bass, 
  paddle- 
  

   fish, 
  moon 
  eye, 
  frogs, 
  turtles, 
  and 
  terrapins. 
  

  

  ' 
  Kentucky. 
  — 
  For 
  an 
  interior 
  State, 
  Kentucky 
  has 
  comparatively 
  impor- 
  

   tant 
  fisheries. 
  Fishing 
  is 
  carried 
  on 
  in 
  the 
  Ohio, 
  Mississippi, 
  Kentucky, 
  

   Cumberland, 
  Tennessee, 
  and 
  Green 
  liivers, 
  the 
  industry 
  being 
  most 
  

   extensive 
  in 
  the 
  first-named 
  stream. 
  In 
  1894, 
  587 
  persons 
  were 
  engaged 
  

   in 
  the 
  economic 
  fisheries 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  447 
  of 
  whom 
  fished 
  in 
  the 
  Ohio 
  

   Eiver, 
  44 
  in 
  the 
  Kentucky 
  lliver, 
  49 
  in 
  the 
  Cumberland 
  liiver, 
  12 
  in 
  the 
  

   Tennessee 
  Eiver, 
  14 
  in 
  the 
  Green 
  River, 
  and 
  21 
  in 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  River. 
  

   About 
  $35,000 
  was 
  invested 
  in 
  fishing 
  property, 
  divided 
  as 
  follows: 
  

   Eighty-one 
  seines, 
  $3,323; 
  2,825 
  fyke 
  nets, 
  $17,975; 
  1,085 
  set 
  lines, 
  

   $1,458; 
  030 
  boats, 
  $10,175; 
  other 
  apparatus 
  and 
  shore 
  property, 
  $2,503. 
  

   Fresh-water 
  drum, 
  buflalo-fish, 
  catfish, 
  and 
  suckers 
  comprise 
  the 
  bulk 
  

   of 
  the 
  catcli, 
  the 
  yield 
  of 
  these 
  four 
  species 
  alone 
  amounting 
  to 
  nearly 
  

   2,000,000 
  pounds. 
  Other 
  fish 
  taken 
  in 
  lesser 
  abundance 
  are 
  sturgeon, 
  

   82,000 
  pounds; 
  paddle-fish, 
  78,000 
  pounds; 
  white, 
  yellow, 
  and 
  rock 
  

   bass, 
  37,000 
  ijouuds; 
  wall-eyed 
  pike, 
  36,000 
  pounds; 
  black 
  bass, 
  24,000 
  

   pounds; 
  moon-eye, 
  13,000 
  pounds; 
  craj)i)y, 
  13,000 
  pounds 
  ; 
  carp, 
  12,000 
  

   pounds; 
  eels, 
  3,000 
  pounds: 
  turtles 
  and 
  terrapins, 
  4,281 
  pounds. 
  The 
  

   aggregate 
  catch, 
  amounting 
  to 
  2,273,585 
  pounds, 
  was 
  worth 
  $90,024. 
  

   Fyke 
  nets 
  take 
  one-half 
  the 
  entire 
  catch. 
  Set 
  lines 
  and 
  seines 
  come 
  

   next 
  in 
  order 
  of 
  importance, 
  while 
  the 
  catch 
  of 
  cast 
  nets, 
  dip 
  nets, 
  drift 
  

   nets, 
  and 
  other 
  apparatus 
  is 
  insignificant. 
  Nearly 
  four-fifths 
  of 
  the 
  

   entire 
  yield 
  are 
  from 
  the 
  Ohio 
  River. 
  

  

  Illinois. 
  — 
  Illinois 
  has 
  the 
  distinction 
  of 
  maintaining 
  more 
  important 
  

   fisheries 
  in 
  its 
  interior 
  waters 
  than 
  any 
  other 
  State. 
  The 
  State 
  is 
  well 
  

   supplied 
  with 
  water-courses 
  containing 
  food-fishes 
  in 
  large 
  variety 
  and 
  

   quantities, 
  and 
  permitting 
  the 
  employment 
  of 
  numenous 
  fishing 
  devices. 
  

   In 
  allusion 
  to 
  the 
  abundance 
  of 
  suckers, 
  Illinois 
  is 
  popularly 
  known 
  as 
  

   the 
  '' 
  Sucker 
  State," 
  an 
  appellation 
  which 
  is 
  well 
  warranted, 
  since 
  

   fishes 
  of 
  the 
  sucker 
  tribe 
  constitute 
  much 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  the 
  total 
  

   annual 
  production. 
  Very 
  important 
  fisheries 
  are 
  prosecuted 
  in 
  the 
  

   Mississippi, 
  Ohio, 
  and 
  Illinois 
  rivers, 
  and 
  interests 
  of 
  less 
  extent 
  cen- 
  

   ter 
  in 
  the 
  Wabash, 
  Kankakee, 
  Sangamon, 
  Kaskaskia, 
  and 
  Big 
  Muddy 
  

   rivers 
  and 
  in 
  Horseshoe 
  and 
  Pittsburg 
  lakes. 
  

  

  In 
  1894 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  this 
  State 
  (excluding 
  those 
  in 
  Lake 
  Michigan) 
  

   were 
  engaged 
  in 
  by 
  over 
  1,650 
  persons, 
  of 
  whom 
  about 
  770 
  were 
  on 
  the 
  

   Mississippi, 
  010 
  on 
  the 
  Illinois, 
  and 
  100 
  on 
  the 
  Ohio. 
  The 
  value 
  of 
  

   the 
  boats, 
  apparatus, 
  and 
  other 
  property 
  used 
  in 
  the 
  industry 
  in 
  that 
  

   year 
  was 
  about 
  $156,000; 
  this 
  sum 
  was 
  apportioned 
  approximately 
  as 
  

   follows 
  : 
  $52,000 
  in 
  1,459 
  boats, 
  $58,780 
  in 
  11,270 
  fyke 
  nets, 
  $3,290 
  in 
  126 
  

   trammel 
  nets, 
  $19,310 
  in 
  203 
  seines, 
  $5,060 
  in 
  gill 
  nets, 
  set 
  and 
  other 
  

   lines, 
  small 
  traps, 
  etc., 
  and 
  $10,765 
  in 
  shore 
  and 
  accessory 
  property. 
  

   The 
  quantity 
  of 
  fishery 
  products 
  taken 
  and 
  sold 
  was 
  over 
  11,537,000 
  

  

  