616 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
The extent of the wholesale fishery trade of Green Bay is shown in 
detail in the following table for the year 1899: 






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Products. | Lbs. | Value. Products. Lbs. | Value. 
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iBlackybass 25s. eee 2,813 $254  White-fish (bluefin)-...... 302,446 | $13, 621 
Cat-fish and bullheads --.- 65, 519 3,419 || Yellow perch ..--.-..<--- 1, 302, 750 24, 976 
Herring, 2 Seerstee ee: 1, 451, 466 295485:|| Othertishios- ese saese5-= 54,750 | 3, 039 
Pike and pickerel ........ | 298, 773 19,3180} Salted fish) 235 2s--55 === 4,151, 412 | 91, 501 
SUCKErs yee Seer a. Soe 338, 314 5,897) || -Smoked fish .222h ss cee 137, 742 | 4, 285 
Sire COM eee Ce ee Cone 10,518 OF CraiwhsSht-< soo 265-eeeene = 7,814 | 248 
ALIRO) TA REE ec 5 ee ee 898, 098 63, 648 8 a 
Wihiteibass-—- 6 = oa ee 120,025 | 5, 967 Total products .....- 9, 301,517 278, 986 
Wihttte-fish@e +o. 2. 25 ee ee 164, 077 IP ROSY/ 


FISHERIES OF LAKE HURON. 
The greatest length of Lake Huron is 250 miles, its greatest width 
about 100 miles, and it has an area of about 21,000 square miles. 
The lake is divided into two approximately equal areas by the so-called 
Big Reef, which extends continuously from Point Clark, Ontario, to 
North Point, Mich. North of this reef the lake has a maximum depth 
of 125 fathoms: the southern half of the lake is shallower, the extreme 
depth being only 54 fathoms. 
The number of persons employed in the fisheries of Lake Huron in 
1899 was 1,241, of whom 62 were engaged on vessels fishing, 7 on ves- 
sels transporting, 986 in the shore or boat fisheries, and 186 were 
shoresmen employed in various capacities. 
The investment in the fisheries of this Iuke amounted to $474,953. 
In fishing there were used 9 vessels of a value with their outfits of 
$50,215, while 3 vessels were eee as transporters and were 
valued with their outfits at $4,830; 527 boats were in use and were 
valued at $40,835. The value of the apparatus used in the vessel 
fisheries was $28,245, and in the shore fisheries $146,939. The shore 
and accessory property was valued at $148,489, and the cash capital 
amounted to $55,500, 
The products of the fisheries aggregated 12,418,327 pounds, worth 
$308,078. The most important species in point of value was trout, of 
which there were taken 1,887,101 pounds, valued at $80,423. Herring 
amounted to 3,699,807 pounds, worth $60,418; yellow perch, 2 2,740,669 
pounds, worth $32,690; wall-eyed pike, 1,110,516 pounds, worth 
$49,294; white-fish, 592,308 pounds, worth $31,910; suckers, 1,107,490 
pounds, worth § $20,320. Other important species were cat-fish and 
pike. 
To the vessel fisheries are credited 1,275,650 pounds of products, 
valued at $55,535, and to the shore fisheries 11,142,677 pounds, valued 
at $252,543. The yield of the vessel fisheries was derived almost 
entirely from gill nets, while in the shore fisheries nearly four-fifths 
of the catch was taken with pound and trap nets. 
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