THE GREAT LAKES FISHERIES IN 1899. 627 
The following table shows the extent of the wholesale trade in 
fishery products in all localities on Lake Huron for the year 1899: 







Products sold. Lbs. Value. Products sold. Lbs. | Value. 
IBISCESDASS!-ceceac cca cess 804 | $72 || Salt-water fish ........... 27, 721 $1, 697 
Cat-fish and bullheads ..-. 321, 910 | DIS S3On|| PUUTRCONE a. aes te = Se 95, 394 22, 011 
GIST Canes seek hie: ToS ate 562 40 |} Suckers, fresh...-......-. 578, 757 15, 103 
Fresh-water drum, fresh . 236, 721 | 2,079 |; Suckers, salted .......... 198, 912 3, 257 
Fresh-water drum, salted 1, 430 Bn Sum=fishiseet cere secre steer | 19, 707 292 
Germam Carpe oases .c- = 1, 456 Bea MaLOUteires he ee mene seen 799, 917 52, 241 
Herne freshis:= 225-2 7 775, 962 | 132401))| Mroutysaltedea 225... 22- 8, 410 196 
Herring, salted ........-... 1, 706, 653. | 34,122 || White-fish, fresh......... 599, 571 45, 695 
Herring, smoked ......... 22, 060 920 || White-fish, salted ........ 9, 460 525 
Ling or lawyers .......--- 792 19 | White-fish (Menominee), 
Pike and pickerel, fresh... 181, 617 SH ORM Ill WER) Gon poccoonesce se 6, 952 304 
Pike and pickerel, salted. 440 | 11 | White-fish (Menominee), 
Pike perch (wall-eyed), le Salted case: See. eases 125, 452 | 4, 445 
HROSD Roses cases ck eee eo 1, 180, 170 65,268 || Yellow perch, fresh...... 2, 336, 134 | 44, 070 
Pike perch (wall-eyed), Yellow perch, salted..... 6,600 | 150 
Salted eese-6 es oe 3, 410 133 
ROCKS DASSR ce 252 eee rs! 62, 832 1,538 (BOta) ey ase s 9, 299, 806 338, 282 



Notr.—Included in the above is 636,865 pounds of fish imported from Canada, valued at $40,922. 
Of this quantity sturgeon comprised 65,190 pounds and caviar 22,060 pounds, the combined yalue of 
which was $21,474. 
FISHERIES OF LAKE ST. CLAIR, ST. CLAIR AND DETROIT RIVERS. 
The fisheries of Lake St. Clair and tributaries in 1899 gave employ- 
ment to 442 persons, of whom 374 were engaged in the shore fisheries 
and 68 on shore in fish-houses. The total amount of capital invested 
was $54,535. The number of boats in use was 188, valued at $3,770. 
The apparatus of capture was valued at $3,820, the greater part of 
which represented the value of seines and aan nets. The shore 
and accessory property was valued at $26,945, while the cash capital 
employed amounted to $20,000. 
The total yield of the fisheries was 579,067 pounds of products, 
valued at $23,864. Wall-eyed pike is the most important species in 
these @horics: the catch being 268,350 pounds, worth $11,877. Among 
other important species were trout, 69,915 pounds, worth $2,884; pike 
and pickerel, 42,715 pounds, ralued at $1,821; perch, 40,000 pounds, 
valued at $1,202; sturgeon, 7,600 pounds, valued at $1,352, and white- 
fish, 69,902 pounds, valued at $3,087. 
Nearly half of the catch, or 256,425 pounds, valued at $10,464, was 
made with lines. Seines are next in importance in these waters, the 
yield being 184,402 pounds, worth $7,678. The catch by gill nets and 
pound nets was much smaller, being valued at $2,958 for the former 
and $502 for the latter. 
Owing to restrictions placed upon the fisheries of this region, espe- 
cially in Lake St. Clair, the results of the present canvass show a very 
decided falling off as compared with the returns for 1893. In that 
year there were in use 380 gill nets, 91 pound nets, 60 fyke nets, and 
20 seines, while in 1899 there were only 60 gill nets, 5 pound nets, and 
13 seines, fyke nets being no longer in use. 
