FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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FISHERIES, BY APPAEATUS. 



The catch of the vessel fisheries amounted to 3,259,811 pounds, 

 valued at S123,169, and of the shore or boat fisheries to 12,287,621 

 pounds, valued at S603,505. In the vessel fisheries the catch of 

 ciscoes, suckers, lake trout, and whitefish w4th gill nets amounted 

 to 3,164,811 pounds, valued at SI 16,369, the balance of the catch 

 consisting of lake trout taken with set lines. In the shore fisheries 

 11,095,696 pounds consisting of bow-fin. ciscoes, pike, pike perch, suck- 

 ers, lake trout, and whitefish, valued at $523,260, were taken with gill 

 nets; 901,873 pounds, including ciscoes, pike, pike perch, suckers, lake 

 trout, whitefish, and yellow perch, valued at S63.610, vnih pound 

 nets and trap nets; 177,300 pounds of lake trout, valued at $15,708, 

 with lines; and 12,752 pounds of ciscoes, suckers, lake trout, and 

 whitefish, valued at 8927. with seines. 



The following tables give the products of the vessel and shore 

 fisheries, by States and counties, in 1917: 



Yield of Vessel Fisheries of Lake Superior i\ 1917, by States, Counties, 

 Apparatus, and Species. 



