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State fish idea swimming through the legislature

March 3, 1997
By: Susan Batt
State Capital Bureau

In Missouri, we have a state bird, a state tree and even a state rock. But there's no state fish or state mammal. Susan Batt tells us how this might change.

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Monday night the House Agri-Business committee unanimously agreed with students from the Mid-American Wildlife 4-H group that Missouri should have three new state animals. Catfish for state fish. White-tailed deer for state mammal. And Paddlefish for state aquatic animal.

Eleven year-old David Vinyard told how his 4-H group studied the animals to determine which should represent the state.

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OutCue: "...valley in China."
Contents: They decided on the paddlefish because it is native to only two places in world - a river in China and the Missouri River.

Next the full-house must decide whether these animals are worthy of state distinction.

From Jefferson Ctiy, I'm Susan Batt.