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nets, valued at $329,632; 5,011 pound nets and trap nets, valued at 

 $681,060; 801 f3d^e nets, valued at $44,403; 285 seines valued at 

 $38,867; and lines to the value of $751. 



The products aggregated 38,710,238 pounds, for which the fisher- 

 men received $2,327,299. Of this quantity. New York is credited 

 with 2,426,848 pounds, valued at $167,358; Pennsylvania, with 

 8,151,241 pounds, valued at $508,382; Ohio, with 26,442,993 pounds, 

 valued at $1,570,230; and Michigan, with 1,689,156 pounds, valued 

 at $81,329. Ciscoes are the principal species represented m the fish- 

 eries of Lake Erie in both quantity and value, the catch being 

 17,160,852 pounds, or 44.33 per cent of the total quantity, valued at 

 $1,046,862, or 44.98 per cent of the total value of all products. The 

 pike perch, includmg sauger, ranked second, the yield being 7,277,701 

 pounds, valued at $524,439; and carp, third, with a yield of 6,044,792 

 pounds, valued at $274,139. Other important species mclude the 

 common whitefish, 1,755,947 pounds, valued at $232,761 ; sheepshead, 

 2,855,551 pounds, valued at $69,502; suckers, 1,035,934 pounds, val- 

 ued at $36,403; and yellow perch, 959,357 pounds, valued at $69,864. 

 The catch of burbot, the use of which for food the Bureau has been 

 encouraging, amounted to 652,870 pounds, valued at $8,027. 



In comparison with 1903 there was an increase of 43, or 1.58 per 

 cent, in the number of persons employed; $2,136,370, or 97.27 per 

 cent, in the capital invested in the fisheries; 15,521,682 pounds, or 

 66.93 per cent, in the quantity, and $1,547,284, or 198.36 per cent, 

 in the value of the products. 



FISHERIES, BY STATES AND COUNTIES. 



The following tables show, by States and counties, the extent of 

 the fisheries of Lake Erie in 1917: 



Statistics op the Fisheries op Lake Erie in 1917, by States and Counties. 



PERSONS ENGAGED. 



1 Includes persons engaged in the wholesale fish trade of Detroit. 



