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FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 

 FISHERIES, BY APPARATUS. 



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The vessel fisheries of Lake Huron in 1917 were credited with 

 2,675,783 pounds, valued at $258,297, and the shore or boat fisheries 

 with 10,687,424 pounds, valued at $599,181. In the vessel fisheries, 

 the principal form of apparatus was the gill net, the catch of all species 

 amounting to 2,350,721 pounds, with a value of $224,787. The princi- 

 pal species were lake trout, 1,094,301 pounds, valued at $116,925; 

 ciscoes, 826,537 pounds, valued at $53,125; and common whitefish, 

 410,475 pounds, valued at $53,716. Thecatch with lines, consisting 

 of lake trout, was 325,062 pounds, valued at $33,510. 



The principal apparatus of capture used in the shore or boat 

 fisheries was pound nets and trap nets, the catch amounting to 7,936,- 

 249 pounds, consisting principally of ciscoes, pike perch, suckers, 

 common whitefish, and yellow perch, valued at $420,409. The catch 

 with other forms of apparatus in the shore fisheries was as follows: 

 Gill nets, 994,759 pounds, principally ciscoes, lake trout, and common 

 whitefish, valued at $88,257; seines, 1,306,502 pounds, principally 

 carp, valued at $56,474; fyke nets, 263,999 pounds, principally 

 yellow perch, suckers, carp, and pike perch, valued at $14,108; 

 lines, 106,655 pounds, consisting of catfish, lake trout, common white- 

 fish, and yellow perch, valued at $10,644; and spears, 79,260 pounds, 

 consisting of carp, pike, pike perch, lake trout, and yellow perch, 

 valued at $9,289. The total catch with gill nets in both vessels and 

 shore fisheries amounted to 3,345,480 pounds, valued at $313,044, 

 and with lines, 431,717 pounds, valued at $44,154. 



The following tables give the products of the vessel and shore 

 fisheries of Lake Huron in 1917 : 



Yield of Vessel Fisheries of Lake Huron in 1917, by Counties and Apparatus. 



