STATISTICS KISI1E1MES OK GUEAT LAKES. 7f)9 



The most valuable fykes, however, tire those used iu Saginaw Bay. About one hundred are 

 employed here, worth $10 each. 



A considerable number of these nets are employed at the east end of Lake Ontario, but uo 

 particulars regarding them were obtained. 



DIP-NET FISHING. Besides the dip-nets used in taking fish out of pounds and for other simi- 

 lar purposes, there are some which are used as means of capture. At De Pere, near Green Bay 

 City, about one hundred large dip-nets, from 5 to 7 feet square, and having a mesh of 3 inches, 

 are employed. They are used by the farmers and others who live along the river for catching 

 suckers, moon-eyes, and other non-commercial species, which they use as manure and as bait for 

 catfish. 



At Saultde Ste. Marie dip-nets are employed by the Indians in catching fish in the rapids. 

 One Indian sits at the stern of the canoe to steer while another stands on the alert at the bow, 

 dip-net in hand, and scoops iu any fish which may be been in the vicinity of the boat. Frequently 

 several hundred pounds are taken in this way by one canoe in a day. 



4. STATISTICS OF FISHEEIES OF GREAT LAKES. 



The fisheries of the Great Lakes in 1880 employed 5,050 fishermen and an invested capital 

 amounting to $1,345,975. Included in the apparatus were 1,500 pound-nets, 44,544 gill-nets, 148 

 seines, and 1,656 vessels and boats. The fishery product was valued at $1,784,050, and aggregated 

 08,742,000 pounds of whitefish, trout, herring, sturgeon, and other species. 



The full details of the extent of these fisheries in the several lakes will be found iu another 

 section of this report, and also iu the Census volume on the Fisheries of the United States. 



