FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 



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Tahh showing the number of ivhitefish, lake trout, and pUce-perch fry deposited in the 

 waters of the Great Lakes by the U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries from 1876 to 

 1891, inclusive. 



* Includes Mackinac Strait. 



t Includes Detroit Eiver. 



The U. S. Commission of Fisli and Fisheries has also made large 

 plants of fish fry in the waters of the Great Lakes throngh the various 

 State commissions, to which eggs were donated and by which the eggs 

 were hatched and the fry deposited. While considerable numbers of 

 the fry thus obtained by the State commissions were not deposited-in 

 the Great Lakes but in the interior waters, it is not possible to separate 

 the plants, and in the following table the aggregate donations are shown : 



Table shoiving the number of whitefish and pike-perch eggs donated by the U, S. Commission 

 of Fish and Fisheries to the Jish commissions of the Slates bordering on the Great Lakes. 



