CXL REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Ajjjxtratus and capital employed in Lake Superior fisheries. 



Items. 



Num- 

 ber. 



Vessels (tonnage, 256.70) 



Boats 



Gill nets 



Pound n&ts 



Seine.s 



Fyke nets 



Dip nets 



Spears 



Lines 



Shore and accessory property 

 Cash capital 



Total . 



320 



5,974 



140 



19 



9 



* $61, 300 



23, 975 



63, 476 



34, 435 



955 



415 



370 



265 



1,713 



109, 878 



69, 900 



"Includes outfit. 

 Products of Lake Superior fisheries. 



The fisheries in the Canadian waters of the lake in which Americans 

 are pecuniarily interested are of considerable importance, as shown by 

 the table. They are prosecuted with gill nets, pound nets, and fyke 

 nets, and the principal fish taken are whitefish and trout. In the year 

 covered by the investigation 1,137,387 pounds of fish, valued at $34,472, 

 were brought into the United States from these fisheries on the northern 

 and eastern shores of the lake. 



As has been shown, the value of the fisheries of this lake in 1890 was 

 more than in 1880, but less than in 1885. The decrease between the 

 two later years was marked in every important fish and was especially 

 serious in the case of whitefish and trout. 



