FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 



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in Wisconsin, where trout is the principal fish taken. Cook County, 

 in Illinois, also has an important line fishery for perch, more of which 

 are here caught than elsewhere in the lake. 



Statistics hy counties. — The following series of tables shows for each 

 county bordering on Lake Michigan (1) the persons engaged in various 

 capacities in the fisheries, (2) the vessels, boats, apparatus, and capital 

 engaged in the industry, (3) the quantity and value of the principal 

 fishes taken, and (4) the catch by each of the prominent kinds of 

 apparatus used. 



Taile showing by States and counties the number of persons employed in the fisheries of 



Lake Michigan in 1890. 



