FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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FISHERIES, BY APPARATUS. 



The catch of the vessel fisheries amounted to 3,259,811 pounds, 

 vahied at $123,169, and of the shore or boat fisheries to 12,287,621 

 pounds, valued at $603,505. In the vessel fisheries the catch of 

 ciscoes, suckers, lake trout, and whitefish with gill nets amounted 

 to 3,164,811 pounds, valued at $116,369, the balance of the catch 

 consisting of lake trout taken with set lines. In the shore fisheries 

 11,095,696 pounds consisting of bowfin, ciscoes, pike, pike perch, suck- 

 ers, lake trout, and whitefish, valued at $523,260, were taken with gUl 

 nets; 901,873 pounds, including ciscoes, pike, pike perch, suckers, lake 

 trout, whitefish, and yeUow perch, valued at $63,610, with pound 

 nets and trap nets; 177,300 pounds of lake trout, valued at $15,708, 

 with lines; and 12,752 pounds of ciscoes, suckers, lake trout, and 

 whitefish, valued at $927, with seines. 



The following tables give the products of the vessel and shore 

 fisheries, by States and counties, in 1917: 



Yield op Vessel Fisheries of Lake Superior in 1917, by States, Counties, 

 Apparatus, and Species. 



