GREAT LAKES: LAKE HURON. 



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D. LAKE HURON AND ITS FISHERIES. 



234. STATISTICAL SUMMATION. 



Summary statement of persons employed. 



Detailed statement of capital in rested and capital employed. 



Detailed stalriiunt (if the quaiititien anil rallies of Hie products. 



235. THE FISHERIES OP THE AMERICAN SHORE. 



HAMMOND'S BAY TO POINT SABLE. The principal fisheries of this section of shore are thosu 

 at Alpena and the Thunder Bay Islands. During 1879 about seventy-nine men were employed iri 

 fishing, many of the assistants being " Canuck" (Canadian) Indians. Nearly all of those who own- 

 boats ship the fish which they catch. 



Both pound-nets and gill-nets are employed here. The gill-net fishery, however, is the most 



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important. Pounds have been in use for twenty-five years, prior to which time gill-nets aud seines 

 were exclusively employed. Except in this particular, there has been but little change in the 

 manner of fishing for many years. In 1879, two thousand gill-nets and about twenty-two pound- 

 nets were in use. The apparatus employed in the management of these nets, together with the 

 nets themselves and the accessories, were valued at $35,000. 



The quantity of fresh fish taken in 1879 was about 2,344,000 pounds, and of salted fish about 



100,000 pounds. The fresh fish consisted exclusively of whitefish and trout, while the salt fish were 



principally lake herring. These amounts were taken by the fishermen belonging to fourteeu 



firms, in quantities varying .from 20 to 230 tons. The fresh fish, with the exception of about 150 



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