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KEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



in consequence deficient of some large quantities bandied by dealers 

 in such places as Toledo, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich., and in a few points 

 of lesser importance. The sales in Cleveland are large enough to 

 compare with those of Sandusky, Buifalo, and Chicago, but the 

 amounts obtained from that city, though cheerfully aftbrded by all who 

 had them at command, are those only from original points, directly 

 from the net-owners, and the gross sales were not in our possession. By 

 far the larger proportion of the catch of Lake Huron and Lake Superior 

 finds its way into the markets of which we have aftbrded statistics,. 

 and the deficiency of the sum-total of their catch will be what has been 

 shipped into the interior of the State. From these causes probably 

 fifteen j)er cent, of the quantities put upon the market are not in the 

 tables, while the local consumption before referred to, would add still 

 more to the totals ; in all, perhaps, twenty-five per cent. 



5. — STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1872. 



The fishes in the tables are classified according to the system adopted 

 at Sandusky, Toledo, and Cleveland. This system includes under " hard 

 fish" the wall-eyed pike, called pickerel on Lake Erie, ^Stizostedion ameri- 

 cana Cuv. and Val. ; the black-bass, Micropterus nigricans Cuv.; and the 

 Micropterus salmoides (Lac.) Gill, mss.; the \ake-i)ike, Usow lucius Lin.; 

 the muskellunge, Esox nobilior Thomps.; the salmon-trout, Salnio namay- 

 cusTi Penn. ; and the white-fish, Coregonus alhus Les. The skinned cat- 

 fishes, selling for the highest prices in the market, are also included. 

 Under the head of "soft fish" are comprised the sauger, Stizosfedion 

 grisca DeKay; the white-bass, Roccus chrysops (Raf.) Gill; the suckers, 

 Catostomns communis Les. ; C. anreolvs Les., C. melanops JKaf., and the 

 carp, Carpiodes cyprinus Les. "Mixed fish" includes both kinds. 



* Statistics of the number of pounds of lake-fishes received by first hand- 

 lers for the year 1872. 



*A11 quantities exchanged bet-ween the places named, after being recorded for their original market, 

 are deducted from the receipts of the subsequent cue. 

 t The figures opposite Sandusky include both the fresh and salt fish. 

 J Inoonaplete. 

 § Obtained only through newspaper sources. 



