﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
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  report 
  of 
  the 
  Eleventh 
  Census 
  showed 
  that 
  in 
  1889 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  

   Colorado 
  had 
  the 
  following 
  extent 
  : 
  Persons 
  employed, 
  27 
  ; 
  value 
  of 
  boats 
  

   and 
  ajiparatus, 
  $673 
  5 
  value 
  of 
  products, 
  $4,504. 
  During 
  March 
  and 
  

   April 
  Mr. 
  Tulian 
  visited 
  all 
  parts 
  of 
  Colorado, 
  but 
  failed 
  to 
  find 
  any 
  

   conamercial 
  fishing, 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  a 
  small 
  business 
  in 
  fish 
  taken 
  

   from 
  private 
  ponds. 
  The 
  enactment 
  of 
  restrictive 
  legislation 
  since 
  1889 
  

   had 
  caused 
  the 
  suspension 
  of 
  all 
  fishing 
  for 
  market 
  jjurposes. 
  

  

  Utah. 
  — 
  On 
  the 
  completion 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Tulian's 
  inquiries 
  in 
  Colorado, 
  he 
  

   was 
  ordered 
  to 
  the 
  adjoining 
  State 
  of 
  Utah, 
  in 
  which 
  commercial 
  fish- 
  

   ing 
  Avas 
  known 
  to 
  exist. 
  During 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  April, 
  Mr. 
  Tulian 
  visited 
  

   Utah 
  Lake, 
  and 
  Bear 
  Lake, 
  and 
  took 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  fishing 
  there 
  

   carried 
  on. 
  The 
  Eleventh 
  Census 
  returns 
  for 
  this 
  State 
  indicated 
  that 
  

   in 
  1889 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  persons 
  engaged 
  in 
  this 
  branch 
  was 
  18, 
  the 
  

   caijital 
  invested 
  was 
  $388, 
  and 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  catch 
  was 
  $5,167. 
  The 
  

   examination 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  waters 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Tulian 
  showed 
  that 
  fishing 
  as 
  

   a 
  business 
  is 
  carried 
  on 
  in 
  Utah 
  Lake, 
  Bear 
  Lake, 
  Panguitch 
  Lake, 
  

   Weber 
  Lake, 
  Ogden 
  Eiver, 
  and 
  numerous 
  small 
  lakes 
  and 
  streams. 
  

   The 
  industry 
  is 
  most 
  important 
  in 
  the 
  first-named 
  lakes, 
  and 
  in 
  Utah 
  

   Lake 
  is 
  especially 
  interesting 
  because 
  two 
  introduced 
  fishes, 
  black 
  bass 
  

   and 
  carp, 
  are 
  the 
  principal 
  products. 
  The 
  semiprofessional 
  fishing 
  

   with 
  rod 
  and 
  line 
  in 
  the 
  smaller 
  waters 
  of 
  Utah 
  is, 
  in 
  the 
  aggregate, 
  very 
  

   extensive, 
  suckers 
  constituting 
  the 
  bulk 
  of 
  the 
  catch. 
  It 
  is 
  only 
  in 
  Bear 
  

   Lake 
  and 
  Utah 
  Lake 
  that 
  any 
  apparatus 
  except 
  lines 
  is 
  employed; 
  in 
  

   the 
  former, 
  gill 
  nets 
  and 
  seines 
  are 
  operated 
  for 
  trout 
  and 
  suckers, 
  

   respectively, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  latter, 
  seines 
  are 
  used 
  for 
  carp 
  and 
  suckers. 
  

  

  The 
  extent 
  of 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Utah 
  in 
  1895 
  was 
  as 
  follows: 
  Persons 
  

   engaged, 
  030, 
  of 
  whom 
  145 
  were 
  professionals; 
  capital 
  invested, 
  

   $11,735; 
  pounds 
  of 
  fish 
  sold, 
  1,230,124; 
  value 
  of 
  catch, 
  $37,480. 
  The 
  

   quantities 
  of 
  the 
  different 
  fishes 
  composing 
  the 
  yield 
  are: 
  Suckers, 
  

   962,400 
  pounds; 
  trout, 
  85,800 
  pounds; 
  carp, 
  133,324 
  pounds; 
  black 
  

   bass, 
  300,000 
  pounds, 
  and 
  whitefish, 
  18,600 
  pounds. 
  

  

  Idaho. 
  — 
  The 
  commercial 
  fisheries 
  of 
  this 
  State 
  are 
  of 
  limited 
  extent. 
  

   They 
  are 
  prosecuted 
  in 
  Snake 
  River 
  and 
  Bear 
  and 
  Pend 
  d'Oreille 
  

   lakes, 
  the 
  last-named 
  water 
  having 
  quite 
  unimportant 
  interests. 
  The 
  

   bulk 
  of 
  the 
  fishing 
  in 
  Snake 
  liiver 
  is 
  done 
  with 
  seines 
  for 
  salmon 
  and 
  

   steelheads; 
  a 
  few 
  thousand 
  pounds 
  of 
  sturgeon 
  are 
  taken 
  with 
  set 
  lines 
  

   and 
  some 
  salmon 
  are 
  caught 
  with 
  wheels. 
  In 
  Pend 
  d'Oreille 
  Lake 
  there 
  

   is 
  a 
  trout 
  line 
  fishery. 
  Seines 
  and 
  gill 
  nets 
  are 
  employed 
  for 
  the 
  caj)- 
  

   ture 
  of 
  trout 
  and 
  suckers 
  in 
  Bear 
  Lake. 
  The 
  fisheries 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  were 
  

   investigated 
  by 
  Mr. 
  William 
  Barnum 
  in 
  August, 
  1895, 
  with 
  the 
  excep- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  those 
  of 
  Bear 
  Lake, 
  which 
  were 
  covered 
  by 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  A. 
  Tulian 
  in 
  

   April, 
  1896. 
  It 
  was 
  ascertained 
  that 
  in 
  1894 
  57 
  persons 
  were 
  engaged 
  

   in 
  the 
  industry; 
  $2,375 
  was 
  invested 
  in 
  30 
  boats, 
  20 
  seines, 
  4 
  wheels, 
  

   and 
  other 
  property; 
  235,058 
  i^ounds 
  of 
  fish 
  Avere 
  taken, 
  for 
  which 
  the 
  

   fishermen 
  received 
  $11,929. 
  Of 
  the 
  products, 
  89,100 
  pounds, 
  worth 
  

   $3,991, 
  were 
  salmon; 
  36,698 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  $1,638, 
  were 
  steelheads; 
  

   4,500 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  $230, 
  were 
  sturgeon; 
  37,200 
  pounds, 
  worth 
  

   $3,570, 
  were 
  trout, 
  and 
  67,500 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  $2,500, 
  were 
  suckers. 
  

  

  