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U. S, BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



The following table shows the statistics of the wholesale fishery 

 trade of Lake Erie in 1922: 



Wholesale fishery trade of Lake Erie in 1922 



' Includes one firm at Monroe, Mich. 



FISHERIES OF LAKE ONTARIO 



The fisheries of Lake Ontario in 1922 ^ave employment to 366 

 persons, of whom 352 were in the shore or boat fisheries and 14 were 

 employed as shoresmen. 



The investment amounted to $173,287, which included 192 row- 

 boats, valued at $6,341; 100 power boats, valued at $31,920; fishing 

 apparatus used on boats, valued at $62,511; shore and accessory 

 property, valued at $47,515; and cash capital amounting to $25,000. 

 The fishing apparatus included 419 trap nets, valued at $33,589; 2,319 

 gill nets, valued at $24,215; 204 fyke nets, valued at $3,362; and 

 seines, lines, etc., to the value of $1,345. 



The products of the fisheries amounted to 929,186 pounds, valued 

 at $109,094, all of which were taken in the shore or boat fisheries, as 

 no vessels were engaged in the fisheries of this lake in 1922. The 

 principal species taken included ciscoes, 187,484 pounds, valued at 

 $15,191; German carp, 138,711 pounds, valued at $10,927; bull- 

 heads, 107,481 pounds, valued at $8,209; pike perch, 141,210 pounds, 

 valued at $28,490; suckei-s, 77,925 pounds, valued at $4,664; com- 

 mon whitefish, 54,951 pounds, valued at $9,603: and lake trout, 

 46,698 pounds, valued at $5,826. 



Compared with 1917, the latest previous year for which statistics 

 are available, there was an increase of 77 in the number of persons 

 employed, of $40,634 in the investment, and of 13,570 pounds in the 

 quantity and $24,981 in the value of the products. 



