A Survey of the Fishery of the Kaskaskia River

Abstract

In this paper the fishes of the Kaskaskia have been taken up one by one and in the case of the larger and better known kinds points of interest and usefulness have been discussed, while the smaller, rarer and less important kinds are only mentioned. In the course of this survey quantitative collections were made of the small bottom animals which are the most important constituents of the food of all kinds of larger fishes.