120 FISHING GROUNDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Between Detour Passage auil llie Straits of jMacldnac there are but two permanent ]H)iin(l 

 fisheries. Oue is located at Strong's Island, the most easterly of the Les Gheneaux grnui). 

 Seven iioiinds were employeil here in 1879, It is a very important and ])rodactive tishery. The 

 second is situated at the head of Saint Martin's Bay, where, in 1879, six shoalwarer pounds were 

 established. 



On the north shore of Lake Michigan, west of the Straits of Mackinac, we find the most 

 extensive and profitable fishing-grounds of the lake, as regards both pound-net and gill-net 

 fishing. The first pound-nets to the eastward -are those established at Gros Cap Point, eight and 

 one-half miles west of Point Saint Ignace. The " Six-mile sand-beach," further to the west, at 

 Point aux Chenes, is a noted and productive ground. From this point westward we find ponnd-nets 

 scatrered along the shoi'e at Point Epoufette, Biddle Point, Mille Coquins Point, Point 

 Patterson, and Scott's Point. Between Point Saint Ignace and Scott's Point, a distance of less 

 than fifty miles, there were located in 1879 more than sixty pound-nets, and about seventy-five 

 gill net boats also fished there. 



Along this coast the pound-nets are all set quite close inshore, and generally each man's 

 nets in a line. Prominent exceptions, however, are furnished in the case of two firms, each of 

 which sets two nets on a shoal about seven miles south of Mille Coquins Point. Another firm 

 has nets set in deep water about nine miles south-southwest of Point Epoufette, and two more 

 are set a short distance west of Simmons's Eeef, and about the same distance directly south of 

 Point Epoufette. The latter two are among the most profitable pound-nets on this shore. 



The Beaver Islands. — The shores of the Beaver Islands present very favorable conditions 

 for the establishment of pound-nets, and they have therefore become the center of an extensive 

 fishery. The bottom consists chiefly of sand, although in some parts, especially on the west 

 .shore of the main island, rockj- grounds ai-e very abundant. 



In 1879 thirty-two pound nets were in use at the islands, sixteen of which were located on 

 the east side of the large island which gives its name to the group, and constituted the Sand 

 Bay fishery. Of the remaining nets, two were located at the north shore of Hog Island, two at 

 High Island, and the others at the north, east, and south shores of Beaver Island. 



At Beaver Harbor, near Saint James post-ofiice, in the northeastern portion of Beaver Island, 

 there is an extensive seining-reach, where, in 1879, two seines were employed. 



Ofif Gull Island, the most westerly of the Beaver group, is a noted gill-net ground. The 

 island is owned by three persons, each of whom employs two boats in the fishery. 



Seul Choix Point to Point Detour, Green Bat. — The only fishery between Seul Choix 

 Point and Point Detour is located at Point aux Barques, where, in 1879, sixty gill nets were 

 employed. The ground extends about four or five miles from the point, the outer limit being in 

 about twenty fathoms of water. The bottom is generally hard and sandy. 



Green Bay. — The fisheries of Green Bay are very extensive, and quite varied in 

 character. The bay is a body of water of uo mean proportions, being about two hundred miles 

 in length and twenty miles in breadth at the widest part, or somewhat more than twice the size 

 of Lake Champlain. There are many large and flourishing towns on the west shore, while the 

 east shore is comparatively unoccupied. 



In con.sidering the fishing-grounds wo shall begin at Point Detour, at the entrance of the 

 bay, and having spoken of the grounds in Big and Little Bays de Koquctte, pass southward 

 along the west shore to Green Bay City, and thence northward along the east shore to Porte des 

 Morts. 



