730 REPORT OF 
COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Summary, by apparatus and waters, of the fisheries of Minnesota in 1899. 
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Apparatus and waters. Lbs. Value. Apparatus and waters. Lbs. | Value. 
Hand lines: Pound nets: | 
Mississippi River .....-- 14, 435 $662 Mississippi River ....-- 10, 250 | $436 
St. Croix River.......... 2,080 | 98 || St. Croix River......... 105, 675 | 2, 229 
Miscellaneous lakes .... 326, 697 | 9,577 es 
Motels sae 115, 925 | 2, 658 
AWOL Ieee eee ee 343, 212 10, 332 || | 
- Gill nets: 
Set lines: St-Croix River s2c<.2.2 1, 000 50 
Mississippi River .....-.- 138, 060 4,114 | Trammel nets: | 
St.iCroix River .....:-.. 14, 715 | 548 Mississippi River ....-. 55, 815 1328 
= Seoop nets: | 
Os oa seeeee ow cicese 1525775: | 4, 662 Miscellaneous lakes ..- 18, 055 1, 324 
Crowfoot lines: Spears: 
Mississippi River ....-.-. 40, 000 160 Db, OLOLX RIVEN 22. ccee 111, 700 2,475 
Miscellaneous lakes .-. 21,500 | 410 
Seines: ————— —- 
Mississippi River ....... 267,915 5, 873 Total.c.ccssceneczes 133, 200 | 2, 885 
St. Croix River ......... 43, 225 | 929 ——— 
Other apparatus: 
GTA yates re ee fo 311, 140 | 6, 802 Miscellaneous lakes ... 74,199 8, 285 
Fyke nets: Total by waters: 
Mississippi River 75, 400 1, 744 Mississippi River ....-- 601, 875 14, 312 
st.’ Croix River .....2... 1,450 | 33 St. Croix River ........ 279, 845 6, 350 
Miscellaneous lakes -.. 440, 451 19, 596 
‘TOtHl sae see cee 76, 850 ad SSS SS 
Grand total 2222... Lo223b uly 40, 258 
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SOUTH DAKOTA. 
In South Dakota the number of persons participating in the fisheries 
was 72, and the capital invested amounted to $1,781. The yield was 
135,893 pounds, valued at $6,941, the greater part of which consisted 
of buffalo-fish and cat-fish. 
The Missouri River is the principal fish-producing stream in South 
Dakota. It flows through the State for a distance of nearly 500 miles. 
The Dakota section of this river contains few varieties of fish, the most 
abundant being cat-fish, buffalo-fish, carp, suckers, and sturgeon. In 
the clearer waters of the adjacent bayous and the tributary streams 
other varieties are found, such as grass pike, pike perch (wall-eyed), 
bullheads, ete. Several varieties of cat-fish are found, but the channel 
sat is by far the most abundant. 
At the various settlements along the banks of the Missouri there 
are a few persons who devote a portion or the whole of their time 
from April to October to fishing. The principal resorts for the 
fishermen are Littlebend, Pierre, Chamberlain, Yankton Agency, 
Niobrara, Yankton, Vermilion, and Elk Point. At each of these 
localities a number of set lines, bait nets, and occasionally seines and 
trammel nets are employed, either in the main stream or at the mouths 
of the tributaries, but the catch is small and all of it is marketed in 
the immediate vicinity. Some risk attends the setting of fixed appa- 
ratus in the Missouri, because of the lability of its being covered up 
or borne away by the shifting sand; and numerous snags and the 
shifting bottom restrict the use of seines. 
