664. 
BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
TABLE 5.—ANNUAL CATCH AND PLANT OF WHITEFISH AND Tota, LENGTH OF NETS IN USE IN 
MICHIGAN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN FROM MANISTEE TO FRANKFORT @ FOR EACH OF THE 
YEARS 1892 TO 1906, INCLUSIVE. 
Gatch. in Total gill and Catch in 
Years. Plant of fry. ends pound nets, in | pounds per 
po g athoms. net-fathom, 
= eee 
WB GA certs ise sommes ae See Se See ee a eee 8 500,000 222,600 162.706 1.36 
1893 -- 6,000, 000 255,000 I5I.090 I.02 
1894-- II, 000, 000 72,700 138, 483 5.36 
1895-- 8,000, 000 78,150 150,447 ~517 
1896__ 6,000, 000 109, 800 181,966 +60 
1897-- 6,500,000 145,200 80, 583 1.80 
1 eae eee ee a ee ee So ce eS 155,200 138,552 1.12 
No i oa ln ee 140,750 134,490 I.04 
I900__ 161, 200 187,551 86 
BOS a a a ee es a ee ee | ee eee a 155,200 153,780 I.00 
I902__ = 261,000 195,472 I.33 
1903-- Berel 172,600 210,240 .82 
1904-- ae 226,000 249,840 -90 
1905_- a 190, 600 296,753 - 63 
TOOGE A= 2. Sant Sho se oe a ee ee ee es eae 205,000 262,020 72 
@¥From United States Fish Commission Report for 1887, p. 84, we find the catch at Frankfort alone for 1885 was 
885,504 pounds. 
TABLE 6.—ANNUAL CATCH AND PLANT OF WHITEFISH AND TOTAL LENGTH OF NETS IN USE IN MICHIGAN 
WATERS OF LAKE HURON FROM MACKINAW City TO PoRT HURON FOR EACH OF THE YEARS 1892 TO 
1906, INCLUSIVE. 
Catenin: Total gilland | Catch, in 
Years. Plant of fry. a pound nets, in | pounds per 
joensen fathoms. net-fathom. 
21,750,000 555,350 £88,019 0.94 
16,640,000 535+750 528,566 I.o1 
16.050, 000 396,350 505,497 -78 
15,500,000 357317 657,255 +54 
19, 850, 000 659, 234 347,799 1.79 
23.440,000 525,860 435,345 I.20 
5,600, 000 387,740 537.704 +72 
12,000, 000 482,980 622, 686 <77 
34, 200, 000 403,020 766, 278 52 
26, 000, 000 600, 620 873,896 . 68 
42,000, 000 639, 600 843, 691 37 
30, 000, 000 722,560 1,050, 667 -68 
30, 000, 000 618, 960 1,056,170 -58 
25,000, 000 329, 260 I, 235,910 26 
20,000, 000 265,320 772,098 34 
TABLE 7.—ANNUAL CaTCH AND PLANT OF WHITEFISH AND ToTAL LENGTH OF NETS IN USE IN CANADIAN 
Waters oF LAKE Huron, IncLupING NortH CHANNEL, FOR EACH OF THE YEARS 1892 TO 1906, 
INCLUSIVE.@ 
Catch, in Total gill and Catch, in 
Years. Plant of fry. a pound nets, in | pounds per 
regen eI fathoms. net-fathom. 
b 3, 000, 000 2,639,156 391,067 6.74 
3,000, 000 2,278, 300 679.395 3-35 
3,000, 000 I, 504, 436 741.135 2.03 
3,000, 000 771,475 535.670 I.44 
3,000, 000 I,09I,950 598, 380 1.82 
3,000,000 740,041 240, 525 3.08 
3,300,000 904,180 683, 480 1.32 
4,000, 000 864,240 335.772 2.57 
4,000,000 I, 255,075 554.045 2.26 
4.300, 000 935,003 471.732 1.97 
5,000, 000 1, 181, 268 868, 137 1.36 
4,000,000 831,610 659, 835 I. 26 
3,000,000 1,578,790 650, 630 2.42 
4.000, 000 739,410 824, 610 ~89 
4,000, 000 922,800 709,440 1.32 
@ Exclusive of Georgian Bay. 
b In the absence of exact information for the years 1892 and 1893 the plants of these years are assumed to have been 
the same as in the years immediately following and are so entered here. 
