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FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



FISHERIES, BY APPARATUS. 



Tlie vessel fisheries of Lake Huron in 1917 were credited with 

 2,675,783 pounds, valued at S258,297, and the shore or boat fisheries 

 with 10,687,424 pounds, valued at $599,181. In the vessel fisheries, 

 the principal form of apparatus was the gill net, the catch of all species 

 amoimting to 2,350,721 pounds, with a value of $224,787. The princi- 

 pal species were lake trout, 1,094,301 pounds, valued at $116,925; 

 ciscoes, 826,537 pounds, valued at $53,125; and common whitefish, 

 410,475 poimds, valued at $53,716. The catch with lines, consisting 

 of lake trout, was 325,062 pounds, valued at $33,510. 



The principal apparatus of capture used in the shore or boat 

 fisheries was pound nets and trap nets, the catch amounting to 7,936,- 

 249 pounds, consisting principally of ciscoes, pike perch, suckers, 

 coromon whitefish, and yellow perch, valued at $420,409. The catch 

 with other forms of apparatus in the shore fisheries was as follows: 

 Gill nets, 994,759 pounds, principally ciscoes, lake trout, and common 

 whitefish, valued at $88,257; seines, 1,306,502 pounds, principally 

 carp, valued at $56,474; fyke nets, 263,999 pounds, principally 

 yellow perch, suckers, carp, and pike perch, valued at $14,108; 

 lines, 106,655 pounds, consisting of catfish, lake trout, common white- 

 fish, and yellow perch, valued at $10,644; and spears, 79,260 pounds, 

 consisting of carp, pike, pike perch, lake trout, and yellow perch, 

 valued at $9,289. The total catch with gill nets in both vessels and 

 shore fisheries amounted to 3,345,480 pounds, valued at $313,044, 

 and with lines, 431,717 pounds, valued at $44,154. 



The following tables give the products of the vessel and shore 

 fisheries of Lake Huron in 1917: 



Yield op Vessel Fisheries of Lake Huron in 1917, by Counties and Apparatus. 



