Document Type
Other
Publication Date
9-1979
Series Number
Extension Special Series No. 27B
Pages
7
Description
An average person might know seven or eight of the approximately 100 fish species found in South Dakota. Once he had named the walleye, largemouth bass, northern pike, and other common sport fishes, he'd quickly lump the remaining ones into broad. unimportant categories. He might name the sucker. In reality, there are at least 11 species of suckers present in the state. He'd list "minnow." But there are at least 36 minnow species in the state and many other small fishes that people call "minnows." Being too small to catch or not good to eat should not label a fish as being unimportant. We should not arbitrarily consign any species to extinction by mismanaging or ignoring it simply because the species appears to have no practical value to us today.
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Scalet, Charles G. and Service, Cooperative Extension, "Endangered and Threatened Fishes of South Dakota" (1979). SDSU Extension Special Series. 118.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/extension_ss/118
Comments
This item was digitized with funding from Project Ceres, a collaboration between the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN), Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC), and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).