FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 



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Vessels, hoats, apparatus, shore property, and cash capital employed in the fisheries of the 



Great Lakes. 



Items. 



Vessels fishing 



Vessels transporting 



Boats 



Apparatus : 



Pound nets 



Gill nets 



Seines 



F vke nets -■ 



Lines and other apparatus 

 Shore and accessory property . 

 Cash capital 



Total. 



Number. 



97 



31 



3,710 



3,750 



1103, 800 



154 



2,968 



Value. 



*$373, 771 



*233, 055 



361, 648 



949, 957 



498, 096 



17, 236 



96, 8G8 



13, 052 



1, 634, 871 



1, 184, 190 



5.362,744 



' Including outfit. 



128,901,071 feet in length. 



Of tlie 113,898,531 pounds of fish resulting from the operations of the 

 Great Lakes fishermen, the minor varieties of whitefish known under 

 the general name of lake herring represent much the largest part; next 

 in point of quantity are the pike and pike perch, the lake trout, the 

 whitefish, the perch, and the sturgeon. The quantities and values of 

 the principal fish are as follows : 



Products of the fisheries of the Ch-eat Lakes. 



Species. 



Herring 



Perch 



Pike and pike perch 



Sturgeon 



Trout 



Whitefish 



All others 



Total 



Pounds. 



48, 753, 349 

 7,754,028 

 16,835,119 

 4, 289, 759 

 12, 890, 441 

 12,401,335 

 10, 974, 500 



113, 898, 531 



Value. 



$561, 703 

 113,260 

 417, 038 

 148, 366 

 507, 950 

 518, 891 

 204, 560 



2, 471, 768 



Eeference should be made to the bulletin relating to the fisheries of 

 the Great Lakes issued by the Eleventli Census.* This is a more con- 

 densed exhibit of the subject than is given in the present paper. The 

 statistical data in the two reports are presented from somewhat differ- 

 ent standpoints, and each has some features that the other lacks, owing 

 to different methods of treatment, different objects in view, and the 

 adoption of different plans for the prosecution of the field investiga- 

 tions on which the reports are based. The census bulletin relates to 

 the year 1889, and gives the following figures as representing the 

 extent of the Great Lake fisheries during that year, the tables being 

 condensed to meet the requirements of the present notice. 



• Fisheries of the Great Lakes. By Charles F. Pidgin and Bert Fesler. Census 

 Bulletin 173. Issued March, 1892. 



