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species), carp, catfish (2 species), bullheads (2 species), chain 

 pickerel, northern pike, muskalonge, eel, white bass, yellow perch, 

 Sanger, yellow pike, blue pike, black bass (2 species), sunfish (2 

 species), rock bass, crappie (2 species), sheepshead and ling. 



Commercial Fisheries. — Commercial fishing within the region 

 covered by the survey^, is centered mainly at Dunkirk, Irving, and 

 Barcelona which are ports from which gill-net boats carry on a 

 fishery of considerable importance. New York State prohibits the 

 use of pound nets, altliough these devices are extensively used in 



The type of jiill-iiet boat used on Lake Erie 



the western parts of Lake Erie and along the Canadian side. Sein- 

 ing is carried on only in lower Cattaraugus creek. Set lines are 

 a means of taking certain species and spears are used to take 

 fish in the Niagara river and in many creeks. 



Statistics of the Great Lakes fisheries have been gathered by the 

 United States Bureau of Fisheries over a long period of years. 

 An excellent account of the fishing industry is that prepared by 

 Walter Koeltz.- A more recent one is a bulletin by 0. E. Sette.^ 

 It is noteworthy that Lake Erie ranks first among the Great Lakes 



^ Through courtesy of Mr. M. W. Bracket! of the Conservation Department the 

 following data pertaining to equipment used in the New York State fisheries of the 

 Erie-Niagara watershed is available: There are ten boats fishing gill nets out of 

 Barcelona; seventeen out of Dunkirk; two out of Irving; one out of Silver creek; 

 one out of Angola; two out of Lackawanna and seven out of Buffalo. There are 

 twelve seine licenses issued for Cattaraugus creek from Lake Erie to the Snow farm. 

 Licensed set lines number sixty-six in Lake Erie and forty-one in the Niagara river. 

 The wholesale fish houses number seventeen in all, one being at Barcelona; three at 

 Dunkirk; one at Irving; eleven at Buffalo and one at Lewiston. 



2 Fishing industry of the Great Lakes. Appendix XI, Report of U. S. Commis- 

 sioner of Fisheries, 1925. 



3 Fishing Industries of the United States. Appendix V, Report of U. S. Com- 

 missioner of Fisheries, 1927. 



