FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 



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Vessels, boats, apparatus, shore pvoperiti, and cash capital emploijcd in the fisheries of the 

 Great Lakes. 



' Including outfit. 



f28,901,071 feet in length. 



Of the 113,898,531 pounds of fish resulting from the operations of the 



the general name of lake lierring represent mucli the largest part; next 

 in point of quantity are the pike and pike perch, the lake trout, the 

 wliitefish, the perch, and the sturgeon. The quantities and values of 

 the principal fish are as follows: 



Products of the fisheries of the Great Lakes. 



Eeference should be made to the bulletin relating to the fisheries of 

 the Great Lakes issued by the Eleventh Census.* This is a more con- 

 densed exhibit of the subject than is given iu the i)resent paper. The 

 statistical data in the two reports are presented from somewhat differ- 

 ent standpoints, and each has some features that the other lacks, owing 

 to diflerent methods of treatment, different objects in view, and the 

 adoption of diflerent plans for the prosecution of the field investiga- 

 tions on which the reports are based. The census bulletin relates to 

 the year 1889, and gives the following figures as representing the 

 extent of the Great Lake fisheries during that year, the tables being 

 condensed to meet the requirements of the present notice. 



* Fi.sliories of Iho (ireat T^akes. 

 Bulletin 173. I8.sued March, 1892. 



By Charles F. Pidgiu and Bert Fesler. CeusuB 



