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Item Illinois Towa Minnesota | Wisconsin Total 
Fishermen: Number Number Number Number | Number 
Reoularay= a 2ee === 2 sees ae 5 ee eae 39 96 10 33 178 
Casnal i= es eee 80 226 57 150 513 
Notal Sees ses ee ee ae 119 322 67 183 691 
Boats: 
IMOtOr: =3 6 =~ a Sebo se soe eee 58 160 9 55 282 
Other==2== ea 2 64 110 40 42 256 
Apparatus: 
pa ulseineStess = be ee ee 22 29 6 36 93 
hength sy ards= ee = == eee aes 2, 456 6, 564 1, 700 6, 866 17, 586 
Stakerorlitn ets. scars ee ae eee | eee ae een || ee 159 823 982 
SQUaresyards = = ee ee ees Sk |e 2 15, 900 77, 500 93, 400 
SRramimelimets: ——— oes ee ae ee | oe ee bic IN Ie semen pe | inde ok ok. el coe 58 
SaquaretyandSi ta eee en eee ONG 425 See Sees eae eee 9, 642 
Mronlines=a=— === ie eee: es eee EA.. 76 89 SON eo ae een 204 
TOO KS Bee ee ee ee 7, 350 7745) 359000|(es25 sare 16, 975 
WiyKe- Nets: <—- <2 ose ee 887 2; O19 || ---22s seek 764 4,170 
CATCH: By STATES 
Species Illinois Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Total 
Pounds| Value | Pownds | Value | Pounds | Value | Pounds | Value | Pownds | Value 
BOWEN: eee 400 $6) 159,300) $2, 441 3, 000 $164] 96,700) $1,914! 259, 400) $4, 525 
Bitalorish ses 197,200} 8,540} 598,400) 27,790) 20, 700) 937) 152.200} 7,284] 968, 500) 44, 551 
Cannes ase, Ae 359, 400) 7, 927)1, 135, 800! 23,614} 113,400] 4, 049} 669, 600} 24, 693}2, 278, 200} 60, 283 
Catfish and bullheads_| 94,100) 8,942) 431,900) 28,490) 17,200} 1,651 7, 100 663] 550, 300) 39, 746 
Helsycomimonves ae alee 1, 000) Oil eee Sars EE eS ee ee eee 1, 000 91 
Gartisn ae | ee | ee ella ee 4, 500 0) bailar || 5 oo 4, 500 30 
Mooneyess+=.— = 12 3,600 91 3, 200 D2 | sae kao Se 4, 890 120 11, 600 263 
Paddlefish or spoon- 
DTU Gai ee ho a Ae es 500) 43 ee ee eee: || ee eee eee 500} 48 
Pikevorpickerel=— 42s es= | s=asee Ag LOO | 825643) Soe a ea ee ee ee 44,100) 2, 643 
Sheepshead ______--__- 104,100) 5,230} 274, 700) 12, 729 7, 100 350| 36,200) 1,667) 422,100) 19, 976 
Sturgeon, shovelnose__|_____-__|_-__- A 51,000) 4, 140 900 Solita eee 51,900] 4, 225 
Sucker ‘‘mullet’’______ 1, 500 39| 44, 200 902 1, 300 28) 26, 900 498 73,900! 1,467 
Turtles, snapper -_-__-_- 200) q 7, 200 Ad eee |e ol ee | eee ee 7, 400 148 
Motaleey eae 760, 500) 30, 779|2, 751, 300) 103, 084) 168,100) 7, 294) 993, 500) 36, 839)4, 673, 400'177, 996 











FISHERIES OF ALASKA "* 
The commercial catch of fishery products in Alaska during 1938, 
exclusive of whales, amounted to 793,948,431 pounds valued at 
$12,040,022, which is a decrease of 4 percent in quantity and 15 
percent in value as compared with the catch in 1937. Of the total 
eatch in 1938, 589,705,625 pounds, valued at $9,943,090, consisted of 
salmon; 201,717,150 pounds, valued at $1,937,902, consisted of other 
fish; and 2,525,656 pounds, valued at $159,030, consisted of shellfish. 
In addition, 173 whales were taken. These fisheries gave employment 
to 11,007 fishermen, 1,923 persons on transporting craft, and 15,154 
persons in fishery wholesale and manufacturing industries—a total 
of 28,084 persons, which is a decrease of 7 percent as compared with 
the number employed in 1937. 
14 Statistics for the fisheries of Alaska are collected and compiled by the Alaska Division of this Bureau. 
A summary of these statistics appears in this section. For detailed figures the reader is referred to ‘‘Alaska 
Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries in 1938,’’ by Ward T. Bower, Administrative Report No. 36, Appendix II 
to the report of the Commissioner of Fisheries for the year 1939. 
