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U. S. BUEEAL' OF FISHERIES 



Statistics of the fisheries of Lake Superior in 1922, by States and counties — Continued 

 YIELD, BY SPECIES— Continued 



FISHERIES BY APPARATUS 



The catch of the vessel fisheries amounted to 1,454,461 pounds, 

 valued at S83,893, and of the shore and boat fisheries to 9,533,559 

 pounds, valued at $400,380. In the vessel fisheries the catch of 

 ciscoes, suckers, lake trout, and whitefish, with gill nets, amounted 

 to 1,359,981 pounds, valued at $72,159; the balance of the catch, 

 consisting of lake trout, was taken on lines. In the shore and boat 

 fisheries 8,610,155 pounds, consisting of burbot, ciscoes, pike, pike 

 perch, suckers, lake trout, white bass, whitefish, and yellow perch, 

 valued at $310,532, were taken with gill nets; the pound-net fishery 

 yielded 633,999 pounds of ciscoes, pike, pike perch, sturgeon, suck- 

 ers, lake trout, whitefish, and yellow perch, valued at $65,287; fyke 

 nets took 42,966 pounds of pike, pike perch, suckers and yellow 

 perch, valued at $2,485; 26,587 pounds of burbot, ciscoes and suck- 

 ers, valued at $427, were taken with seines; and 219,852 pounds of 

 lake trout, valued at $21,649, were taken on lines. 



The following tables give the statistics of the yield of the vessel, 

 and the shore and boat fisheries of Lake Superior in 1922; 



Yield of the vessel fisheries of Lake Superior in 1922, by States, counties, apparatus, 



and species 



