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FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Comparative Statistics of Products of Shad and Alewife Fishery of the 

 Potomac River for Various Years from 1896 to 1919. 



FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES, LAKE OF THE WOODS, AND RAINY 



LAKE IN 1917. 



The statistics of the fisheries of the Great Lakes, and Lake 

 of the Woods, Rainy Lake, and Lakes Kabetogama and La 

 Croix, Minn., presented in this report are for the calendar year 

 1917. The canvass of these fisheries was made by Winthrop A. 

 Roberts and Rob Leon Greer, agents of this Bureau, and the sta- 

 tistics obtained have already been published in condensed form in 

 Statistical Bulletin No. 436, and in "Fishery Industries of the United 

 States. Report of the Division of Statistics and Methods of the 

 Fisheries for 1918," Appendix X, Report, U. S. Commissioner of 

 Fisheries, 1918, pages 42 to 47. The detailed statistics are pub- 

 lished for the first time in the present report. 



EARLIER PUBLICATIONS. 



Earlier publications relating to the fisheries of the Great Lakes 

 and published in Washington, D. C, are the following: 



The Fisheries of the Great Lakes. Elaborated from notes gathered by Mr. Ludwig 

 K(umlien, by Frederick W. True. The Fishery Industries of the United States, 

 1887, Section II, A Geographical Review of the Fisheries Industries and Fish- 

 ing Communities for the year 1880, pp. 631-673. 



The Fisheries of the Groat Lakes, Ijv Ludwig Kumlien. The Fishery Industries of 

 the United States, 1887, Section V, vol. 1, pp. 755-769. 



Report on an Investigation of the Fisheiies of Lake Ontario, by Hugh M. Smith. 

 Bulletin, U. S. Fish Commission, Vol. X, 1890, pp. 177-215. 



Review of the Fisheries of the Great Lakes in 1885, compiled by Hugh M. Smith 

 and Merwin-Marie Snell, with Introduction and Description of Fishing Vessels 

 by J. W. Collins. Appendix, Report of Commissioner, U. S. Commission of 

 Fish and Fisheries, 1887, pp. 1-333. 



Report on the Fisheries of the Great Lakes, by Hugh M. Smith. Appendix, Report 

 of Commissioner, U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 1892, pp. 361-462. 



Report of the Division of Statistics and Methods of the Fisheries, by Hugh M. Smith. 

 Report of Commissioner, U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 1895, pp. 93- 

 103. 



Report of the Joint Commission relative to the Preservation of the Fisheries in 

 Waters Contiguous to Canada and the United States, by Richard Rathbun and 

 William Wakeham. House Executive Document No. 315, Fifty-fourth Congress, 

 second session, 1897, pp. 1-178. 



Fisheries of Lake Ontario. Report of Commissioner, U. S. Commission of Fish and 

 Fisheries, 1898, pp. cmi-clvi. 



Statistics of Certain Fisheries of the New England and Middle Atlantic States and 

 the Great Lakes. Report, U. S. Fish Commission, 1898, pp. clxvi-clxxv. (In 

 this report the figures presented relate to the fiscal year 1897.) 



