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FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES, LAKE OF THE WOODS, AND RAINY 



LAKE, 1922 



The statistics of the fisheries of the Great Lakes, Lake of the Woods, 

 and Rainy Lake, presented herewith, are the result of a statistical 

 canvass covering the calender year 1922. The canvass was so planned 

 and conducted as to make its results comparable with the statistics 

 for the year 1917, with the exception that the mussel fisheries of 

 certain rivers tributary to Lake Michigan and Lake Erie were in- 

 cluded, although they had not heretofore been covered by statistical 

 canvasses of the Great Lakes. The statistics obtained have already 

 been published in condensed form in Statistical Bulletin No. 618. 

 The detailed statistics are published for the first time in the present 

 report. 



EARLIER PUBLICATIONS 



Earlier publications relating to the fisheries of the Great Lakes* 

 published in Washington, D. C, follow: 



1887. The fisheries of the Great Lakes. By Frederick W. True. Elaborated 

 from notes gathered by Mr. Ludwig KumUen. In The Fisheries and 

 Fishery Industries of the United States, bv George Brown Goode and 

 associates, 1880 (1887), Section II, Part XVII, pp. 631-673. 



1887. The fisheries of the Great Lakes. By Ludwig Kumlien. In The Fish- 

 eries and Fishery Industries of the United States, by George Brown 

 Goode and associates, 1880 (1887), Section V, Vol. I, Part XIV, pp. 

 757-769. 



1891. Review of the fisheries of the Great Lakes in 1885, compiled by Hugh 



M. Smith and Merwin-Marie Snell, with introduction and description 

 of fishing vessels and boats by J. W. Collins. Appendix, Report of the 

 Commissioner, United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 1887 

 (1891), pp. 1-133. 



1892. Report on an investigation of the fisheries of Lake Ontario. By Hugh 



M. Smith. Bulletin, United States Fish Commission, Vol. X. 1890 

 (1892), pp. 177-215. 



1894. The fisheries of the Great Lakes. By Hugh M. Smith. Report of the 

 Commissioner, United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 1892 

 (1894), pp. 363-462. 



1896. Report of the Division of Statistics and Methods of the Fisheries. By 

 Hugh M. Smith. Report of the Commissioner, United States Com- 

 mission of Fish and Fisheries, 1895 (1896), pp. 93-103. 



1898. Report of the Joint Commission relative to the preservation of the 



fisheries in waters contiguous to Canada and the United States. By 

 Richard Rathbun and William Wakeham. House Executive Document 

 No. 315, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, 1897, pp. 1-178. 



1899. Fisheries of Lake Ontario. Report of the Commissioner, United States 



Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 1898 (1899), pp. clii-clvi. 



1899. Statistics of certain fisheries of the New England and Middle Atlantic 

 States and the Great Lakes. Report of the Commissioner, United 

 States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 1898 (1899), pp. clxvi-clxxv. 

 [In this report the figures presented relate to the fiscal j-ear 1897.] 



1902. Statistics of the fisheries of the Great Lakes. By C. H. Townsend. 

 Report of the Commissioner, United States Commission of Fish and 

 Fisheries, 1901 (1902), pp. 57.5-657. 



1905. Statistics of the fisheries of the Great Lakes in 1903. Bv A. B. Ale.xander. 

 Report of the Bureau of Fisheries, 1904 (1905), pp. "643-731. 



1911. Fisheries of the United States, 1908. Special Report, Bureau of the 

 Census, 1911. 



1917. Fresh-water mussel fishery. In Report, United States Commission of 

 Fi-sheries, 1915 (1917), Document No. 827, pp. 63-69. 



1920. Fisheries of the Great Lakes, Lake of the Woods, and Rainy Lake in 

 1917. In Fishery Industries of the United States. Report of the 

 Division of Statistics and Methods of the Fisheries for 1919, by Lewis 

 Radcliff'e. Appendix X, Report, United States Commissioner of Fish- 

 eries, 1919 (1921), pp. 52-128. Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 

 892. 



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