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ber of establishments and of $100,200 in cash capital, and an increase 

 of 150 employees, of S6,773 in the amount of wages paid, and of 

 $103,986 in the value of the property. 



The following table show^ by localities the extent of the wholesale 

 fishery trade of Lake Superior in 1917: 



Wholesale Fishery Trade of Lake Superior in 1917. 



FISHERIES OF LAKE MICHIGAN. 



In 1917 Lake Michigan ranked first among the Great Lakes in the 

 number of persons employed in the fisheries and second in the amount 

 of invested capital and the quantity and value of the products. 

 The total number of persons employed in the fisheries of Lake 

 Michigan was 3,313, of whom 1,096 were on fishing vessels, 81 on 

 vessels transporting fishery products, 1,285 in the shore fisheries, and 

 851 shoresmen in the wholesale fishery trade, etc. Of the total num- 

 ber of persons engaged 1,537 were credited to Wisconsin, 1,145 to 

 Michigan, 564 to Illinois, and 67 to Indiana. 



The total investment in the fisheries of the lake amounted to 

 $4,038,927. The number of vessels fishing was 332, with a net 

 tonnage of 3,913 tons, valued at $631,960, and having outfits to the 

 value of $179,521 ; and of transportmg vessels, 60 with net tonnage of 

 495 tons, valued at $38,225, with outfits valued at $4,515. The 

 number of boats was 739, worth $101,538. The fishing apparatus 

 used on vessels was valued at $561,349, and on boats at $413,678. 

 Shore and accessory property amounted to $1,758,341 and cash 

 capital to $349,800. The investment was divided among the different 

 States as follows: Wisconsin, $1,514,295, or 37.49 per cent; Illmois, 

 $1,265,664, or 31.34 per cent; Michigan, $1,179,143, or 29.19 per 

 cent; and Indiana, $79,825, or 1.98 per cent. 



Gill nets were the most important apparatus of captm^e, 57,453, 

 representing a value of $535,616, bemg employed in the vessel 

 fisheries, and 26,354, valued at $109,458, in the boat fisheries, a total 

 in both fisheries of 83,807, amounting in value to $645,074. Lines 

 valued at $27,868 were employed in both the vessel and shore fisheries. 

 Other apparatus used in the shore fisheries included 1,134 poimd nets 

 and trap nets, valued at $242,570; 3,343 fyke nets, valued at $39,795; 

 61 seines, valued at $18,120 ; and 6,400 crawfish pots, valued at $1,600. 



The fishery products of Lake Michigan amounted to 35,460,628 

 pounds, valued at $2,270,859. This total was divided among the 

 difi'erent States as follows: Wisconsin, 21,453,679 pounds, valued at 

 $1,225,084; Michigan, 11,634,480 pounds, valued at $883,301; 

 Illinois, 1,356,294 pounds, valued at $87,375; and Indiana, 1,016,175 

 pomids, \ralued at $75,099. The more important species taken in 



