FISHEEIES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 



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Table shou'iDg hii lakes the a])paratiis and capital emj>Joyed in the fisheries of New York in 



1903. 



Item. 



Vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Vessels transporting 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Boats 



Gasciline boats 



Apparatus — vessel fisheries: 



Gill nets 



Apparatus — shore fisheries: 



Pound nets and trap nets. 



Gill nets 



Fyk*' nets 



Seines 



Lines 



Spears 



Fishing machines 



Shore property 



Cash capital 



Total 100, 992 



Lake Ontario." 



No. 



226 

 5 



620 



176 



1,176 



509 



Value. 



$4,000 



610 

 ■100 



50 

 7,497 

 3,000 



2,920 



9,945 



10, 942 



7,161 



205 



1, 526 



16 



600 



23, 220 



29, 000 



Lake Erie. 



No. 



22 

 416 



23 

 3,338 



Value. 



S73, 100 



12, 815 



2, 325 

 12, S50 



32, 775 



3,900 

 26, 970 



147, 930 

 157, 250 



470, 606 



Total. 



No. 



24 

 436 



278 

 23 



6,986 



199 



4,514 



509 



Value. 



»77, 



"'is' 



100 



325 

 400 



50 

 822 

 350 



35, 695 



171, 

 186, 



845 

 912 

 161 

 205 

 717 

 16 

 600 

 150 

 250 



571, 598 



a Includes St. Lawrence and Niagara rivers. 

 Table sJiowing by lakes and species the yield of the fisheries of Nerc York, in 1903. 



Species. 



Black Bass , 



Cat-fish and bullheads . . 



Eels 



Fresh- water drum , 



German carp 



Herring, fresh 



Herring, .salted 



Ling or lawyers 



Pike and pickerel 



Pike perch (blue pike) 

 Pike perch (wall-eyed) 



Pike perch (sauger) 



Rock bass 



Sturgeon 



Caviar 



Suckers 



Sun-fish 



Trout 



White bass 



White-fish 



Yellow perch 



Frogs 



Total 1,244,600 1 69,353 



Lake Ontario. « 



Lbs. 



28. 

 349; 



73. 

 4, 



10, 

 105, 



16; 



31, 



66, 



335 

 224 

 595 

 300 

 320 

 315 

 000 

 600 

 359 

 065 

 025 



22 



213 



12 



99 



34 



4 



•> 



25 



Vi2 



119 

 .590 

 505 

 060 

 089 

 0.50 

 000 

 384 

 165 

 500 



Value. 



11,813 



12, 903 



4,233 



86 



432 



5,170 



640 



18 



2,080 



3,353 



650 



Lake Erie. 



Lbs. 



321 



11,504 



6,897 



1,809 



482 



279 



40 



2,122 



4,271 



2.50 



4, 825 

 2, 671 



21, 560 

 1,505,324 



1,003,347 



21,366 



7,000 



.500 



223, 110 



4,712 



60, 588 



1,200 



13, 039 



500 



52, 247 



26, 616 



2, 949, 305 



Value. 



108 



12 



417 



.58, 232 



40,138 



910 



490 



6 



16, 897 



3, 932 



1,245 



8 



714 



6 



4,025 



918 



128, 445 



Total. 



Lbs. 



33, 160 



351,795 



73, 595 



6, 100 



37, 880 



1,610,639 



16, 000 



600 



31,359 



1, 069, 412 



29, 391 



7,000 



22,619 



436, 700 



17,217 



159, 648 



35, 289 



17, 089 



2, 500 



77, 631 



158, 781 



500 



4, 193, 905 



Value. 



$2, 200 



13, Oil 



4,233 



98 



849 



63, 402 



640 



18 



2,080 



43, 491 



1,560 



490 



327 



28,401 



10, 829 



3,054 



490 



993 



46 



6, 147 



5, 189 



250 



187, 798 



a Includes St. Lawrence and Niagara rivers. 



