FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 



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Tabl- showing the niiviher of whitefish, lake trout, and pike-perch fry deposited in the 

 iDUters of the Great Lakes by the U. S. Commission of Fish, and Fisheries from 1876 to 

 1S91, inclusive. 



*Includes Mackinac Strait. tincludes Detroit Kiver. 



The U. S. Commission of Fisli and Fisheries has also made large 

 I>lants of fish fry iu the waters of the Great Lakes through the various 

 State commissious, to which eggs were donated and by which the eggs 

 were hatched and the fry deposited. While considerable numbers of 

 the fry thus obtained by the State commissions were not deposited in 

 the Great Lakes but in the interior waters, it is not possible to separate 

 the plants, and in the following table the aggregate donations are shown : 



Table showing the number of lohitefish and pike-perch eggs donated by the U. S. Commission 

 of Fish and Fisheries to the Jish commissions of the States bordering on the Great Lakes. 



