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.

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).

Publisher

South Dakota State University

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