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On the slioals south of Greeu Islaud, which is situated iu tlie uiiddle uf the bay, southeast of 

 Menomonee, hook-fishing is prosecuted to a considerable extent. Prior to 1867, this fishery was 

 quite extensive and important. 



At Green Bay City about one hundred and fifty fyke-nets are set in Fox River, near the 

 mouth, and various species are taken. 



Hook-fishing is carried on on the east shore of Green Bay, in Door county, to a very 

 limited extent. 



De Pere being situated at tlie head of Fox Eiver, and not directlj* on Green Bay, its 

 fisheries may be more properly considered separately, althougli they are of little importance. The 

 catch consists i)rincipally of dory, pickerel, catfish, and sturgeon, but some whitefish are also 

 taken. A number of small gill-nets are used and two seines, together with about one hundred 

 dip-nets. In the latter many kinds of fish are taken, such as moon-eyes, which are only used for 

 manure or as bait for catfish. 



Porte des Morts to Port Washington. — The first gill-net grounds on the west shore of 

 Lake Michigan, south of Porte des Morts, are near Jacksouport, around the Cana Islands. 

 Gill-net fishing was formerly prosecuted here to a considerable extent, but pound-nets have 

 gradually taken their plac6 so that only about a hundred gill-nets remain between Porte des 

 Morts and Clay Banks, a, distance of about thirty miles. 



The next gill-net ground is at Clay Banks. It extends about two miles north of the village 

 and the same distance south of it. At the outeii limit the water is from ten to fourteen fathoms in 

 depth and the bottom is everywhere rocky. The principal species of fish caught here is the 

 trout. 



About four miles south of Clay Banks we find another small gill-net ground. In 1879 there 

 were two small gangs of fishermen here who employed gill-nets in taking trout. As a rule they 

 fish in not more than ten fathoms of water. 



Between Stony Creek and Two Creeks on the south, a distance of about twenty-five miles, 

 there are no fishing grounds of any sort. At Two Creeks, however, we reach the upper end of 

 the great giil-net grounds, frequented by the fishermen of Two Eivers. These grounds extend 

 from nearly opijosite Two Creeks on the north to Manitowoc on the south, a distance of about 

 fourteen miles. The inner limit of the grounds is uniformly about two miles from sbore, where 

 the water is from ten to fourteen fathoms in depth. At the outer limit of the grounds, about ten 

 miles from shore, we find eighty or ninety fathoms of water. This outer region, however, is 

 visited only by the tugs, the smaller Mackinac boats fishing closer inshore. The catch consists 

 chiefly of trout, blackfins, and lawyers. 



Passing southward we find the next gill-net ground opposite Sheboygan. This ground 

 extends from two and one half to eighteen miles from shore, the water varying from twelve to 

 sixty or seventy fathoms in depth. This ground was abandoned in 18GC on account of the scarcity 

 of fish, but a few years later, fishing being resumed, the yield was as large as, or larger than, ever 

 before known. 



The most northerly pound-net gi-oiuid on this section of coast is located at Jacksonport. 

 The grounds arc situated a little to the southward of the village, and the nets arc usuallj' set 

 about a mile from shore. At Whitefish Bay, about seven miles south, is one of the oklest and 

 best known whitefish grounds on the lake. The bottom here is ridgy, clay and gravel alternating 

 in furrows. This kind of bottom is believed to be that most frequently visited by whitefish. 



The next pound net ground to the southward is located between Two Creeks and Manitowoc, 

 and between the shore and tlie outer limit of the great Two Bivers gill-net ground. The bottom 



