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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  Pemiscot 
  Lake. 
  The 
  investment 
  in 
  boats, 
  apparatus, 
  and 
  other 
  prop- 
  

   erty 
  was 
  $44,205, 
  divided 
  as 
  follows: 
  523 
  boats, 
  $11,221; 
  95 
  seines, 
  

   $5,237; 
  120 
  trammel 
  nets, 
  $3,654; 
  3,014 
  fyke 
  nets, 
  $14,207; 
  1,235 
  set 
  

   lines, 
  $1,056; 
  375 
  drift 
  and 
  hand 
  lines, 
  $95; 
  58 
  spears, 
  $68; 
  shore 
  and 
  

   accessory 
  property, 
  $8,667. 
  More 
  than 
  one-half 
  the 
  investment 
  was 
  

   on 
  the 
  Mississijipi 
  Elver. 
  The 
  products 
  of 
  the 
  fisheries 
  amounted 
  to 
  

   3,821,654 
  pounds, 
  with 
  a 
  value 
  to 
  the 
  fishermen 
  of 
  $119,786. 
  The 
  spe- 
  

   cies 
  taken 
  in 
  largest 
  quantities 
  were 
  buflalo-fish 
  and 
  catfish, 
  1,724,078 
  

   pounds 
  of 
  the 
  former, 
  and 
  757,566 
  of 
  the 
  latter, 
  or 
  nearly 
  two-thirds 
  

   of 
  the 
  aggregate 
  yield, 
  being 
  obtained. 
  Fresh-water 
  drum, 
  suckers, 
  

   paddle-fish, 
  crappy, 
  black 
  bass, 
  and 
  carp 
  were 
  each 
  taken 
  in 
  qnantities 
  of 
  

   over 
  100,000 
  pounds. 
  Sturgeon, 
  sunfish, 
  white 
  bass, 
  rock 
  bass, 
  pike 
  perch, 
  

   eels, 
  and 
  moon-eye 
  are 
  obtained 
  in 
  limited 
  quantities; 
  154,818 
  pounds 
  

   of 
  frogs, 
  having 
  a 
  value 
  to 
  the 
  fishermen 
  of 
  $9,676, 
  were 
  also 
  secured. 
  

  

  Kansas. 
  — 
  The 
  fisheries 
  of 
  this 
  State 
  are 
  restricted 
  to 
  the 
  Missouri 
  

   and 
  Kansas 
  rivers, 
  and 
  are 
  comparatively 
  unimportant. 
  In 
  1894 
  only 
  

   61 
  persons 
  followed 
  the 
  business. 
  These 
  had 
  $3,411 
  invested 
  and 
  

   took 
  242,387 
  pounds 
  of 
  fish, 
  valued 
  at 
  $11,022. 
  The 
  investment 
  was 
  

   made 
  up 
  of 
  $683 
  in 
  61 
  boats, 
  $715 
  in 
  12 
  seines, 
  $1,210 
  in 
  190 
  fyke 
  nets, 
  

   and 
  $803 
  in 
  other 
  apparatns 
  and 
  shore 
  property. 
  The 
  princii>al 
  fish 
  

   caught 
  for 
  market 
  are 
  catfish, 
  buflalo 
  fish, 
  fresh-water 
  drum, 
  suckers, 
  

   carp, 
  paddle-fish, 
  sturgeon, 
  and 
  eels. 
  Catfish 
  constituted 
  nearly 
  two- 
  

   thirds 
  of 
  the 
  aggregate 
  catch. 
  

  

  Nehrasla. 
  — 
  The 
  fisheries 
  of 
  this 
  State, 
  which 
  are 
  prosecuted 
  in 
  the 
  

   Missouri 
  and 
  Platte 
  rivers, 
  have 
  not 
  attained 
  much 
  development. 
  In 
  

   1894 
  they 
  gave 
  employment 
  to 
  only 
  76 
  persons; 
  the 
  capital 
  invested 
  

   was 
  $2,721 
  (chiefly 
  in 
  seines), 
  and 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  yield 
  was 
  $14,015. 
  

   The 
  fishes 
  taken 
  in 
  largest 
  quantities 
  are 
  bufl'alo-fish, 
  catfish, 
  fresh- 
  

   water 
  drum, 
  and 
  paddle-fish, 
  which 
  comprised 
  over 
  306,000 
  pounds 
  

   in 
  a 
  total 
  catch 
  of 
  340,400. 
  Over 
  311,000 
  pounds, 
  worth 
  $12,490, 
  came 
  

   from 
  the 
  Missouri 
  River, 
  and 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  the 
  aggregate 
  output 
  of 
  

   the 
  State 
  is 
  obtained 
  with 
  seines. 
  

  

  South 
  Dalota. 
  — 
  The 
  Missouri 
  River 
  and 
  its 
  tributaries, 
  the 
  Vermil- 
  

   lion, 
  Big 
  Sioux, 
  and 
  Dakota 
  rivers, 
  are 
  the 
  principal 
  fishing-grounds 
  

   in 
  this 
  State, 
  although 
  considerable 
  fishing 
  is, 
  iu 
  the 
  aggregate, 
  done 
  in 
  

   Big 
  Stone, 
  Madison, 
  Wall, 
  and 
  Herman 
  lakes. 
  Tlie 
  physical 
  condi- 
  

   tions 
  are 
  not 
  favorable 
  to 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  important 
  fisheries, 
  and 
  

   the 
  industry 
  is 
  further 
  curtailed 
  by 
  the 
  interdiction 
  of 
  net 
  fishing 
  

   except 
  iu 
  the 
  Missouri 
  River. 
  The 
  121 
  persons 
  engaged 
  in 
  fishing 
  in 
  

   1894 
  had 
  97 
  boats, 
  26 
  seines, 
  15 
  gill 
  nets, 
  18 
  trammel 
  nets, 
  48 
  fykes, 
  136 
  

   set 
  and 
  hand 
  lines, 
  which, 
  with 
  other 
  property, 
  had 
  a 
  value 
  of 
  $2,911. 
  

   The 
  catch 
  was 
  416,920 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  $13,261. 
  Only 
  two 
  kinds 
  of 
  

   fish 
  are 
  taken 
  iu 
  noteworthy 
  quantities, 
  buffalo-fish 
  and 
  catfish, 
  of 
  

   which 
  196,000 
  pounds 
  and 
  125,000 
  i)ounds, 
  respectively, 
  were 
  obtained. 
  

  

  Colorado. 
  — 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  A. 
  Tuliau, 
  superintendent 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

   Fish 
  Commission 
  station 
  at 
  Leadville, 
  Colorado, 
  was 
  detailed 
  in 
  March, 
  

   1896, 
  for 
  an 
  examination 
  of 
  the 
  economic 
  fisheries 
  of 
  this 
  State. 
  The 
  

  

  