REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FI8H AND FISHP:RIES. CLI 



Comparath'e lahle shoxving the yield of the fisheries of Lake Erie in 1880, 1885, and 



1890. 



From tlie following table, giving- tlie quantity and value of each of 

 the principal fishes taken with the different appliances, the importance 

 of gill nets and pound nets as means of capture will be clearly seen. 

 Gill nets yield the largest money returns and take the largest quanti- 

 ties of whiteflsh, blue pike, and sturgeon, while the pound nets have 

 the largest aggregate catch and surpass the gill nets in the output of 

 herring, saugers, and wall-eyed pike. 



Table shotoing ly apparatus and species the yield of the fisheries of Lake Erie. 



Species. 



Pounds. Value. 



Pound nets and trap 



Pounds. Value. 



Fyke nets. 



Black bass — 



Blue pike 



Catfish 



Herring 



Perch 



Saugers 



Sturjieon 



Trout 



AVall-eved pike 



AVhiteiish 



other fish , 



5,'i 

 5,411,f 



18, 642, \ 



1, 101, t 



237,4 



1,340.'; 



120,'; 



278. c 



],402,f 



305, i 



$264 



108, 759 



10 



203, 787 



14, 733 



7,401 



47, 777 



5,148 



11,771 



69, 557 



3,950 



112, 403 

 1, 952, 308 



470, 832 

 20,210,983 

 1, 270, 700 

 3, 226, 562 



531, 243 



$5,887, 

 32, 068 

 12, 132 

 194, 775 

 8,038 

 30, 425 

 19, 626 



$4, 534 



1, 399, 846 



937, 063 



1, 077, 829 



57, 301 

 46, 323 

 8,050 



Total , 



28, 848, 353 



473, 157 



7,275 

 41, 379 



