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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

   SKANEATELES 
  LAKE. 
  

  

  This 
  lake 
  lies 
  almost 
  midway 
  between 
  Oneida 
  and 
  Cayuga, 
  and, 
  like 
  

   most 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  lakes 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  is 
  long 
  and 
  narrow, 
  being 
  about 
  

   15 
  miles 
  in 
  length 
  and 
  1^ 
  miles 
  in 
  width 
  at 
  the 
  widest 
  part, 
  with 
  a 
  

   depth 
  of 
  320 
  feet. 
  Through 
  a 
  short 
  outlet 
  it 
  discharges 
  into 
  Seneca 
  

   River. 
  Its 
  commercial 
  fisheries 
  are 
  insignificant, 
  hand 
  and 
  set 
  lines 
  

   being 
  the 
  only 
  apparatus 
  permitted. 
  Lake 
  trout 
  is 
  the 
  principal 
  fish 
  

   caught 
  with 
  the 
  hand 
  lines, 
  bullheads 
  and 
  suckers 
  the 
  only 
  species 
  

   taken 
  on 
  the 
  set 
  lines. 
  

  

  STATISTICS 
  OF 
  THE 
  INTERIOR 
  FISHERIES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  tables 
  show, 
  ])y 
  lakes 
  and 
  rivers, 
  the 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  

   interior 
  fisheries 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  in 
  1902. 
  In 
  1895 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  fish- 
  

   ermen 
  was 
  543, 
  in 
  1902 
  it 
  was 
  804, 
  a 
  gain 
  of 
  261. 
  Seneca 
  Lake 
  shows 
  

   the 
  greatest 
  increase. 
  The 
  total 
  investment 
  in 
  1895 
  amounted 
  to 
  

   $19,745; 
  in 
  1902 
  to 
  $25,291, 
  a 
  gain 
  of 
  $5,546. 
  Seneca 
  Lake 
  leads 
  in 
  

   total 
  investment, 
  with 
  Oneida 
  and 
  Champlain 
  lakes 
  second 
  and 
  third, 
  

   respectively. 
  In 
  1895 
  the 
  total 
  catch 
  was 
  754,730 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  

   at 
  $60,068, 
  while 
  in 
  1902 
  it 
  amounted 
  to 
  1,530,918 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  

   $87,897, 
  a 
  gain 
  of 
  776,188 
  pounds 
  and 
  $27,811. 
  Oneida 
  Lake 
  leads 
  

   in 
  the 
  quantity 
  secured, 
  and 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  catch 
  is 
  exceeded 
  onlv 
  in 
  

   Chautauqua 
  Lake, 
  by 
  a 
  very 
  narrow 
  margin. 
  Keuka 
  Lake 
  is 
  third. 
  

   The 
  interior 
  waters 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  produce 
  more 
  muskellunge 
  and 
  smelt 
  

   than 
  the 
  waters 
  of 
  any 
  other 
  State 
  in 
  the 
  Union, 
  and 
  they 
  lead 
  all 
  

   others, 
  except 
  the 
  Great 
  Lakes, 
  in 
  the 
  catch 
  of 
  bullheads, 
  pickerel, 
  

   wall-eyed 
  pike 
  (except 
  Minnesota), 
  yellow 
  perch, 
  and 
  suckers. 
  

  

  Table 
  tiliowing, 
  hi/ 
  waters, 
  the 
  apparatus 
  used 
  and 
  species 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  interior 
  Jisheries 
  of 
  

  

  New 
  York. 
  

  

  