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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  MISSISSIPPI. 
  

  

  Commercial 
  fishing- 
  is 
  conducted 
  in 
  eight 
  rivers, 
  eight 
  lakes, 
  and 
  one 
  

   bayou. 
  Tlie 
  rivers 
  are 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  and 
  its 
  tributary 
  the 
  Yazoo, 
  the 
  

   Pearl, 
  the 
  Pascagoula, 
  the 
  Torabigbee, 
  the 
  Big 
  Biloxi, 
  the 
  Homochitto, 
  

   the 
  Jordan, 
  and 
  the 
  Wolf. 
  It 
  is 
  only 
  in 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  however, 
  that 
  

   the 
  business 
  is 
  of 
  special 
  prominence. 
  Here 
  the 
  fishermen 
  take 
  con- 
  

   siderable 
  quantities 
  of 
  shrimp, 
  besides 
  making 
  the 
  usual 
  large 
  catch 
  of 
  

   buftalo-fish 
  and 
  catfish. 
  Seines 
  and 
  set 
  lines 
  together 
  take 
  about 
  four 
  

   fifths 
  of 
  the 
  output. 
  The 
  regulation 
  of 
  the 
  fisheries 
  is 
  vested 
  by 
  the 
  

   legislature 
  in 
  the 
  different 
  counties, 
  often 
  resulting 
  in 
  very 
  diverse 
  

   and 
  conflicting 
  laws 
  for 
  the 
  same 
  waters. 
  

  

  Tahle 
  fiho%iiin(i 
  hy 
  waters 
  the 
  niunher 
  of 
  persons 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Mississippi 
  in 
  

  

  1S94. 
  

  

  * 
  Exclusive 
  of 
  duplication. 
  

  

  Table 
  showing 
  hy 
  waters 
  the 
  boats, 
  apparatus, 
  and 
  property 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  

  

  Mississi2>j}i 
  in 
  1894. 
  

  

  