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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  TENNESSEE. 
  

  

  The 
  Mississippi, 
  Tennessee, 
  and 
  Cumberland 
  rivers, 
  and 
  Reelfootaiid 
  

   Open 
  lakes 
  are 
  the 
  principal 
  waters 
  in 
  this 
  State. 
  Reell'oot 
  Lake 
  is 
  

   most 
  important 
  from 
  a 
  fishiug 
  standpoint, 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  quan- 
  

   tity 
  of 
  fishery 
  products 
  credited 
  to 
  the 
  State 
  being 
  taken 
  in 
  this 
  lake. 
  

   In 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  Eiver, 
  however, 
  the 
  fishiug 
  is 
  also 
  quite 
  extensive. 
  

   About 
  three-fourths 
  of 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  products 
  represent 
  buftalo-fish 
  

   and 
  catfish, 
  although 
  there 
  is 
  quite 
  a 
  large 
  variety 
  of 
  other 
  species 
  

   taken 
  in 
  noteworthy 
  quantities. 
  The 
  favorite 
  forms 
  of 
  apparatus 
  are 
  

   set 
  lines 
  and 
  fyke 
  nets, 
  although 
  in 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  River 
  only 
  the 
  latter 
  

   kind 
  of 
  apparatus 
  is 
  used. 
  

  

  Table 
  showing 
  hi/ 
  waters 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  persons 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Tennessee 
  i?i 
  

  

  1894. 
  

  

  'Exclusive 
  of 
  duplication. 
  

  

  Table 
  showin;/ 
  hi/ 
  waters 
  the 
  apparatus 
  and 
  capital 
  emploiied 
  in 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Tennessee 
  

  

  in 
  1S94. 
  

  

  