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Show other states, with a total of 4,470,-498. 4,470,-498. This was due to the tremendous tremen-dous muskrat population found along the many miles of creeks, rivers, and bayous in the state. Out of Louisiana's total take of pelts, 4,076,785 were muskrat. Regulations governing the trapping trap-ping of fur animals are made by the individual states, not by the government. In some states either no information as to the number and kinds of animals trapped Is required by the state government or such information is meager. For this reason estimates as to the annual take of fur animals for the country as a whole are necessarily neces-sarily inexact. REPORT GIVEN ON U. S. FUR INDUSTRY The fur catch in the United States and Alaska last year was worth approximately $100,000,000 to trappers, Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the i Interior, announced today after a survey of state and territorial statistics. sta-tistics. At least 19 million animals were taken by trappers during the year and this figure may be considerably con-siderably below the actual take since a number of states do not keep accurate records of the catch, Dr. Gabrielson declared. Louisiana, in the number of pelts taken, far out-ranked all |