FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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nets, valued at $329,632; 5,011 pound nets and trap nets, valued at 

 $681,060; 801 fyke nets, valued at $44,403; 285 seines valued at 

 $38,867; and lines to the value of $751. 



The products aggregated 38,710,238 pounds, for which the fisher- 

 men received $2,327,299. Of this quantity. New York is credited 

 with 2,426,848 pounds, valued at $167,358; Pennsylvania, with 

 8,151,241 pounds, valued at $508,382; Ohio, with 26,442,993 pounds, 

 valued at $1,570,230; and Michigan, with 1,689,156 pounds, valued 

 at $81,329. Ciscoes are the prmcipal species represented in the fish- 

 eries of Lake Erie in both quantity and value, the catch being 

 17,160,852 pounds, or 44.33 per cent of the total quantity, valued at 

 $1,046,862, or 44.98 per cent of the total value of all products. The 

 pike perch, includmg sauger, ranked second, the yield Deing 7,277,701 

 pounds, valued at $524,439 ; and carp, third, with a yield of 6,044,792 

 pounds, valued at $274,139. Other important species mclude the 

 common whitefish, 1,755,947 pounds, valued at $232,761 ; sheepshead, 

 2,855,551 pounds, valued at $69,502; suckers, 1,035,934 pounds, val- 

 ued at $36,403; and yellow perch, 959,357 pounds, valued at $69,864. 

 The catch of burbot, the use of which for food the Bureau has been 

 encouraging, amounted to 652,870 pounds, valued at $8,027. 



In comparison with 1903 there was an increase of 43, or 1.58 per 

 cent, in the number of persons employed; $2,136,370, or 97.27 per 

 cent, in the capital invested in the fisheries; 15,521,682 pounds, or 

 66.93 per cent, in the ciuantity, and $1,547,284, or 198.36 per cent, 

 in the value of the products. 



FISHERIES, BY STATES AND COUNTIES. 



The following tables show, by States and counties, the extent of 

 the fisheries of Lake Erie in 1 9 1 7 : 



Statistics op the Fisheries op Lake Erie in 1917, by States and Counties. 



persons enoaqed. 



Includes persons engaged in the wholesale fish trade of Detroit. 



