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  EEPORT 
  OP 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  INDIANA. 
  

  

  The 
  fisheries 
  of 
  this 
  State 
  are 
  of 
  noteworthy 
  importance 
  among 
  the 
  

   States 
  of 
  the 
  interior. 
  The 
  most 
  important 
  streams 
  within 
  the 
  State 
  

   or 
  on 
  its 
  borders 
  are 
  the 
  Ohio, 
  Wabash, 
  White, 
  Tippecanoe, 
  and 
  Kan- 
  

   kakee; 
  besides 
  which 
  there 
  are 
  several 
  large 
  lakes 
  in 
  the 
  northern 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  in 
  which 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  fishing 
  is 
  prosecnted. 
  Tlie 
  

   industry 
  is 
  most 
  important 
  on 
  the 
  Ohio 
  and 
  Wabash 
  rivers, 
  in 
  which 
  

   large 
  quantities 
  of 
  buffalo-fish, 
  catfish, 
  drum, 
  suckers, 
  and 
  wall-eyed 
  

   pike 
  are 
  caught. 
  Fyke 
  nets 
  and 
  set 
  lines 
  are 
  the 
  leading 
  means 
  of 
  cap- 
  

   ture, 
  over 
  two 
  thousand 
  of 
  each 
  of 
  these 
  being 
  used. 
  Seines, 
  cast 
  nets, 
  

   hand 
  and 
  drift 
  lines, 
  spears, 
  gill 
  nets, 
  and 
  scoop 
  nets 
  are 
  also 
  employed 
  

   to 
  a 
  limited 
  extent. 
  

  

  Taile 
  shotcing 
  hy 
  waters 
  the 
  numher 
  of 
  persons 
  using 
  each 
  form 
  of 
  apparatus 
  employed 
  in 
  

   the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Indiana 
  in 
  1894. 
  

  

  Table 
  shoioing 
  hy 
  waters 
  the 
  apparatus 
  and 
  capital 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Indiana 
  

  

  in 
  1894. 
  

  

  