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Table sliouing by lakes and species the yield of the fisheries of the Great Lakes in 1S90' 



Species. 



Bass 



Herring 



Pt-rcb 



I'ike and pike perch . 



Sturgeon 



Trout 



Whitefish 



Other fish , 



Total 



Superior. 



199, 121 



26. 3G2 



47, 4S2 



2, 613, 373 



3,213,176 



16, 473 



6, 115, 992 



^\, 616 



1,134 



1,401 



88, 201 



124, 987 



629 



220, 968 



Michigan. 



143, 

 6, 082, 

 1, 913, 

 566, 

 940, 

 8,364, 

 5, 455, 

 2, 932, 



26, 434, 



$6, 477 

 102, 721 

 46, 641 

 21, 087 

 34, 253 

 349, 193 

 219,059 

 50, 134 



830, 465 



Huron. 



29, 351 

 514, .'551 



817, 028 

 48!!, (w2 

 30,5, 718 

 505,619 

 004,094 

 33;;, 318 



$2, 167 

 28, 181 



5o! 834 

 8, 024 

 51.042 

 37, 247 

 21, 880 



221, 067 



Species. 



Pounds. V.alue, 



Pounds. Value. 



Pounds. Value. 



Pounds. Value 



Herring 



Perch 



Pike and pike 



Sturgeon 



Trout 



Whitefish.... 

 Other fish.... 



$544 

 5,797 

 10, ICO 

 17, 533 

 7,794 

 12, 242 

 14, 753 

 4,754 



248, 418 

 38, 868, 283 

 2, 870. 407 

 13, 774, 503 

 2, 078, 907 

 121,420 

 2,341,451 

 4,547,484 



33, 092 

 598, 978 

 358,947 

 460, 492 

 .541,752 



41.010 

 148,771 

 ,263,406 



$2, 364 

 20, 936 

 5,368 

 35, 013 

 22, 291 

 2,0S9 

 6,875 

 29, 850 



463, 086 

 48, 753, 349 



7, 751, 028 

 16,8.35,119 



4, 289, 759 

 12, 890, 441 

 12, 401, 335 

 10,511,414 



$25, 073 

 561, 703 

 113,260 

 417, 038 

 148, 366 

 507, 950 

 518,891 

 179, 487 



Totfl . 



73, 577 



04, 850, 873 



1, 000, 



905 3,446,448 ,124, 



113,898,531 



LAKE SUPERIOR. 



General features of the fisheries. — The condition of the fishing industry 

 of this lake in the year covered by the investigation of the Fish Com- 

 mission was generally regarded as satisfactory and as representing the 

 average in recei.t years; the figures presented therefore afibrd a basis 

 for rational comparisons. 



The fishery resources of this lake are less develojied than those of 

 any other member of the chain. Long stretches of shore line are not 

 only without fishing communities, but also without settlements of any 

 kind. The sparsity of the population and the relative remoteness of 

 most parts of the lake from markets Avill doubtless retard the rapid 

 growth of the flslieries and prevent them attaining for some years the 

 importance whicli the natural resources warrant. 



While some fislies which in parts of the Great Lakes chain have great 

 commercial impoitance are not relatively abundant in Lake Superior, 

 still the most prominent of the lake fishes are here present in large 

 quantities, and it is probable that in no other lake can a continued sup- 

 ply of desirable food-fishes be more certainly depended on. The great 

 area of the lake (;32,0()0 square miles) and its depth (1,200 feet in places) 

 are conditions favorable to the maintenance of fisheries of much larger 

 extent than are now prosecuted anywhere in the Great Lakes basin. 



The fishing centers in this lake are, beginning at the western end of 

 tlie lake, Duluth, IMinn.; Bayfield and Ashhuul, Wis.; Ontonagon, 

 L'Ansc, ifaraga, Manpiette, Whitefish Point, and Sault Ste. INIarie, Mich. 

 Important places for the collection, sale, and shipment of fish arc 

 Duluth, Bayfield, Iloughton, Marquette, Whitefish Boint, and Sault 

 Ste. Marie. 



A prominent feature of the fisheries during recent years has been the 

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