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FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 



Persons Engaged, Investment, and Products, by Species, in the Fisheries 

 OF Lake Ontario in 1917, by Counties — Continued. 



Fisheries, by apparatus. — The catch of the vessel fisheries 

 amounted to 4,930 pounds, vahied at $413, consisting of 4,500 pounds 

 of ciscoes, value $360; 200 pounds of whitefish, value $30; and 230 

 pounds of yellow perch, value $23, all of wliich was taken with giU 

 nets by a vessel in Wavne County. 



The catch taken by boats amounted to 910,686 pounds, valued at 

 $83,700, of which gill nets took 402,170 pounds, value $43,112; trap 

 nets, 359,298 pounds, value $28,826; fyke nets, 89,312 pounds, value 

 $8,823; seines, 54,386 pounds, value $1,704; lines, 4,688 pounds, value 

 $1,159; and scap or dip nets, 832 pounds, value $76. The principal 

 specias taken with trap nets were catfish and bullheads, ciscoes, eels, 

 suckers, sunfish, and yellow perch; with gill nets, burbot, ciscoes, pike 

 perch, suckers, lake trout, and whitefish; with fyke nets, catfish and 

 Dullheads, eels, pike, suckers, sunfish, and yellow perch; and with 



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