FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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valued at $1,570,230; Wisconsin, 24,042,103 pounds, valued at 

 $1,320,162; Pennsylvania, 8,151,241 pounds, valued at $508,382; 

 Minnesota, 10,041,846 pounds, valued at $429,667; New York, 

 3,481,236 pounds, valued at $268,215; Illinois, 1,356,294 pounds, 

 valued at $87,375; and Indiana, 1,016,155 pounds, valued at $75,099. 



Separate statistics, by lakes, are given for States whose fisheries 

 are conducted in more than one lake. 



The following table shows, by States, the number of persons 

 engaged, apparatus and capital employed, and products of the 

 fisheries of the Great Lakes in 1917: 



Persons Engaged, Investment, and Products in the Fisheries of the Great 

 Lakes in 1917, by States. 



Items. 



New York. 



Pennsylvania. 



Ohio. 



PERSONS EN<;.\GED. 



On fishing vessels 



On vessels transporting. 



In shore fisheries 



Shoresmen 



jVumfter. 



J 82 



.1 2 



4.51 



J 148 



Total. 



INVESTMEKT. 



Vessels fishing: 



Steam 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Gasoline 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Vessels transporting: 



Steam 



Tonnage 



Outfit. 



OasoUne 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Sail and row boats 



Power boats 



Apparatus, vessel fisheries: Gill nets. 

 Apparatus, shore fi.sheries: 



Pound nets and trap nets 



Gill nets 



Fyke nets 



Seines 



Linos 



Fishing machines 



Other apparatus 



Shore and acoessorj- property 



Cash capital 



Total 



pnonucTS. 



Bowfin 



Burbot 



Carp, Asiatic 



Catfish and bullheads. .. . 

 Ciscocs: 



Fresh 



Salted 



Eels 



Gold-eve, ormoon-eye 



Pike.." 



Pike pen h: 



Blue pike 



Wall.oyed or yellow pike, fresh. 



Rock bass 



Sauger 



8hccpsliPa<l or dnim 



Sturgeon 



Sturgeon caviar 



Suckers, fresh 



Bunfish 



Trout , lake , fresh 



White l>a.ss 



Whit/'fish, common, fresh 



Yellow perch, fresh 



Total 



683 



n 



236 



202 



110 



7,473 



3S3 



3,4S4 



334 



20 



Poundt. 



7,046 



77,025 



70,980 



48,629 



2,503,723 

 8,909 

 43,007 



16, 191 



65,374 



8,388 



7,02.5 



77,598 



355 



73,280 



1,562 



136,099 



23,885 



25,23.5 



30 



231,415 



54,880 



3.481,236 



Value. 



Number. 



247 



7 



47 

 145 



446 



$79,000 



36 

 812 



10,230 

 8,700 



1,180 



1,300 



65 



5,125 



35,805 



53,817 



24,280 



41,586 



4,374 



850 



1,872 



795 



6 



387,500 



136,886 



17 



14 



20,154 



69 

 362 



793,371 



Value. 



$3.50 



2,633 



3,743 



6,016 



173,076 

 1,051 

 3,402 



T'oundn. 



148,719 



22,427 



990 



7,. 381, 256 



2,149 



6, 4-53 



1,177 



468 



3,879 



26 



17,210 



3,271 



8,905 



1,327 



2,974 



2 



26,230 



3,873 



1,238 



162,878 

 3,214 



33,993 

 10, 863 

 2,730 



28,626 



120 



1,323 



3fX), 203 



52,571 



268,215 



8,151,241 



Value. 



Number. 



188 



41 



1,171 



361 



1,761 



$238,440 



26 

 652 



43,684 

 18,200 



3,276 

 3,000 

 "256 



19 

 193 



765 



7,200 



141,273 



16,930 

 2,214 



516 

 341 

 ,379 



,826 

 ,881 

 523 

 219 



366,679 

 78,000 



919,919 



Value. 



$1,.541 



718 



61 



Pounds. 

 5, IM 



488, RS6 

 4,589,118 



62<-.,847 



7,735,136 



1.3,049 

 412 



10,335 



4,428 



1,874,. 551 

 1,211,574 



2,245 

 309 

 348 



3, 817, .581 



2,844,633 



3,075 



824 



857,318 



13 



118 



.37,015 



3,837 



261 



284,759 



1,28.5,311 



804,015 



508,382 



26.442.993 



Value, 



$151,958 



39,765 

 12,000 



3,540 

 21.500 



4,950 

 41,600 



9,455 

 24,810 

 14.5,500 

 77,476 



65.3,135 



28,325 



27,100 



33,097 



45 



10 

 993,506 

 195,000 



2,462,832 



Value. 



$69 



6,241 



214,120 



39,090 



465,983 



104 

 402 



120, .523 

 139,877 



233,911 

 69,190 



482 



29,328 



32 

 17,092 

 177, 535 

 56,251 



1,. 570, 230 



