FISHERIES, BY STATES. 



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apparatus of capture, for the MississippiRiver, the Ohio 

 River, and the Lake Michigan districts, respectively. 

 The following table shows the distribution of the 

 value of the chief products for the fishery districts of 

 the state: 



Total. 



Fish 



Carp, German 



Buffalo flsh 



Catfish and bullheads. 



Black bass 



Crappie 



Sunfish 



Lake herring, or Cisco. 



Drum, or sheepshead . . 



Dogfish 



Lake trout 



Perch, yellow 



Paddlefish 



Allothcr 



Mussel shells 



Pearls and slugs 



Skins, muskrat and mink. 



Terrapin and turtles 



Frogs 



VALUE OF PRODUCTS: 1908. 



Total. 



$1,436,000 



032,000 

 574,000 

 117,000 

 96,000 

 57,000 

 35,000 

 31,000 

 28,000 



20,000 



18,000 



13,000 



12,000 



12,000 



21,000 



184,000 



170,000 



20,000 



21,000 



6,800 



Mississippi 



River 

 district. 



$1,242,000 



us; 



90i 

 57, 

 34, 

 31, 



11, 

 17, 

 142, 

 98, 

 20, 

 21, 

 6, 



Ohio 



River 



district. 



$136, 000 



22,000 



5,500 



3,800 



6,300 



100 



100 



100 



3,900 



600 



1,600 



42,000 



72,000 



Lake 

 Michigan 

 district. 



$58,000 



58,000 



2,(iOO 



100 



28,000 



100 



200 



13,000 



12,000 



2,000 



' Less than $100. 



The most important tributary of the Mississippi 

 River is the Illinois River. In 1894 the fishery 

 product of the Illinois River was about 3,000 tons, 

 valued at $162,000, and formed about one-half of 

 the yield of the Mississippi River district. In 1899 

 it formed about two-thirds, amounting to 7,000 tons, 

 valued at $382,000, and in 1908 it formed more than 

 seven-tenths, amounting to 23,000 tons, valued at 

 $860,000. The chief product of the Illinois River is 

 German carp. The carp from this river in 1908 

 formed nearly three-fourths of the carp product for 

 the state, and was valued at $412,000, which is nearly 

 as large as the combined value of all the other fishery 

 products of this river. 



The mussel products of the Illinois River were 

 valued at $139,000, or nearly 58 per cent of the value 

 of the mussel products of the Mississippi River dis- 

 trict, and nearly 40 per cent of the value of the mussel 

 products of the state. 



The fisheries of the Ohio River district have 

 increased to a considerable extent, as is shown by the 

 following comparative statement: 



in 1908 accounts almost entirely for the large gains 

 shown for that year, as compared with the earlier 

 years. Carp, moreover, which in 1908 contributed 

 one-fourth of the value of the fish product, formed 

 only a small part of the product at each of the pre- 

 vious canvasses. In 1899 and in 1894 drum, buffalo 

 fish, and catfish were leading species. 



The increase in the products of the lake fisheries 

 since the last canvass has been relatively large, as is 

 shown in the following tabular statement: 



1908. 

 1903. 

 1890. 



FISHERY PRODUCTS OF 

 LAKE MICHIGAN DIS- 

 TRICT. 



Quantity 

 (pounds). 



Value. 



1,176,000 

 598.000 

 822,000 



$58,000 

 24,000 

 24,000 



Products, ly class of fisheries. The distribution of 

 the product between the vessel fisheries and the shore 

 and boat fisheries by districts is shown in the following 

 tabular statement: 



The catch of the shore and boat fisheries comprised 

 all but a small portion of the entire state product. 



The products, by species and apparatus of capture, 

 are given for the vessel fisheries in Table 5, on page 

 119, and for the shore and boat fisheries in Table 6, on 

 page 120. The former table also distributes the prod- 

 ucts between the two districts which had vessel fish- 

 eries the Mississippi River and the Lake Michigan 

 districts. 



By deducting the products of the vessel fisheries of 

 the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan districts, as 

 given in Table 5, on page 119, from the corresponding 

 items for all fishery products of those districts, as 

 given in Tables 2 and 4, respectively, on pages 118 

 and 119, the specific products of the shore and 

 boat fisheries of each of these districts can be ascer- 

 tained. All of the products of the Ohio River district, 

 presented in Table 3, belong to the shore and boat 

 fisheries. 



