FISHERIES IN MICHIGAN WATERS OF GREEN BAY 



Table 1. — Commercial production of fish, by species, in 

 Qreen Bay, 1885 



(In thousands of pounds; data adapted from Smith and Snell (1891)] 



Species 



Percentage 

 of total 



Lake trout 



Whiteflsh' 



Lake herring.. 



Walleye > 



Suckers- 



Sturgeon 



Black bass 



Miscellaneous 3 



Total.... 



i Includes round whiteflsh (Prompium cylindraceum) and blackfins (Core- 

 Bonus nigripinnis) . The catch of these species doubtless was small; state- 

 ments by Smith and Snell concernins quantities of blackfins captured in tho 

 vicinity of Escanaba must be viewed with skepticism. 



a Believed to have been mostly walleyes. Smith and Snell confused the 

 terms "walleyed pike," "pike," "pickerel," and "dore" in their text. 



» Fish mentioned specifically as having part or all of their catch included 

 under "Miscellaneous" were black bass (Micropterus spp.), suckers (Cato- 

 stomus spp. and Moxostoma spp.), yellow perch (Perca flavacent), and bull- 

 heads (AmeiuTWi spp.). 



Lake herring 



(39.7 percent of the total of 

 2,449,000 pounds) and whitefish (31.0 percent) 

 predominated in the 1885 fishery. Lake trout 

 (16.5 percent) also was important, but among the 

 remaining species only the lake sturgeon ( Acipen- 

 ser fulvescens) contributed as much as 5 percent 

 of the total. 



520.294 pounds of smoked flsh — n poundage exactly equal to the 

 combined totals of fresh and salt fish llBted in the general tables. 

 The tables recorded no smoked fish for the Escanaba region. 

 Here, again, we followed the tables. 



Figure 1. — Chart of northern Green Bay. 



PRODUCTION IN 1891-1908 



Outstanding features of the statistics for this 

 18-year period (tables 2 and 3; figs. 2 to 8) were 

 the pronounced if irregular upward trend of pro- 

 duction and the strong dominance of lake herring 

 in the catch. Of significance also was the in- 

 creased relative importance of yellow perch and 

 suckers in the latter part of the period. 



Table 2.— Production in the commercial fisheries of Green Bay, by species, 1891-1908 



(In thousands of pounds) 



' Includes small production of black bass, sauger (Stizosttdion canadense), and catfish (presumably Malum* punctatus) in addition to catches not identified. 



