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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  MISSOURI. 
  

  

  Missouri 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  leadiug 
  lisbiug- 
  States 
  of 
  the 
  interior. 
  Fishing- 
  

   is 
  prosecuted 
  on 
  tlie 
  Missouri 
  and 
  Mississippi 
  rivers 
  and 
  on 
  a 
  number 
  

   of 
  lakes 
  in 
  the 
  sunken 
  lands, 
  formed 
  from 
  overflows 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi. 
  

   A 
  prominent 
  feature 
  of 
  the 
  fisheries 
  is 
  the 
  hunting 
  of 
  frogs 
  in 
  the 
  south- 
  

   eastern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  Kearly 
  half 
  the 
  yield 
  of 
  the 
  fisheries 
  repre- 
  

   sents 
  buffalo-fish; 
  next 
  in 
  importance 
  are 
  catfish, 
  crappy, 
  drum, 
  black 
  

   bass, 
  suckers, 
  and 
  paddle-fish. 
  More 
  than 
  three 
  thousand 
  fyke 
  nets 
  

   are 
  used, 
  hi 
  which 
  about 
  a 
  third 
  of 
  the 
  catch 
  is 
  taken; 
  seines, 
  trammel 
  

   nets, 
  and 
  set 
  lines 
  are 
  also 
  important 
  as 
  means 
  of 
  capture. 
  

  

  "Table 
  ahowing 
  the 
  nnmher 
  of 
  persons 
  cmploijcd 
  in 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Missouri 
  in 
  1S94. 
  

  

  Waters. 
  

  

  Mississippi 
  River 
  

  

  Missouri 
  River 
  

  

  Little 
  River 
  and 
  Bis 
  Lake 
  

  

  Pemiscot 
  Liike 
  

  

  Swamps 
  and 
  lakes 
  (sunlieu 
  

   lands) 
  

  

  Total 
  

  

  Fisheries 
  in 
  -which 
  employed. 
  

  

  Seinfi 
  ''^'■^™- 
  ^y^® 
  S®* 
  

   ^^™^- 
  melnet. 
  net. 
  line. 
  

  

  144 
  

  

  102 
  

  

  11 
  

  

  6 
  

  

  138 
  

   41 
  

   38 
  

  

  249 
  

   96 
  

   38 
  

  

  242 
  

   90 
  

   38 
  

  

  Drift 
  ^ 
  

   line. 
  ^P®*^*^- 
  

  

  Shores- 
  i 
  Total 
  ex- 
  

   men 
  and 
  clii.sive 
  of 
  

   prepara- 
  duplica- 
  

   tors, 
  tion. 
  

  

  379 
  

  

  143 
  

  

  43 
  

  

  10 
  

  

  Tahle 
  showing 
  the 
  apparatus 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Missouri 
  in 
  1894. 
  

  

  