FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 



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ill Wisconsin, where trout is the principal fish taken. Cook County 

 in Illinois, also has an important lino fishery for perch, more of which 

 are here caught than elsewhere in the lake. 



Statistics by counties. — The following series of tables shows for each 

 county bordering- on Lake jVIichigan (1) the persons engaged in various 

 capacities in the fisheries, (2) the vessels, boats, apparatus, and cai^ital 

 engaged in the industry, (3) the quantity and value of the principal 

 fishes taken, and (4) the catch by each of the prominent kinds of 

 apparatus used. 



Tabic allowing by States and counties the member of persons employed in the fisheries of 

 Lake Michigan in 1S90. 



