﻿FISHERIES 
  OF 
  THE 
  INTERIOR 
  WATERS. 
  

  

  501 
  

  

  VERMONT, 
  

  

  The 
  commercial 
  fisheries 
  of 
  this 
  State 
  are 
  confined 
  to 
  Lake 
  Champlain 
  

   and 
  Lamoille 
  and 
  Winooski 
  rivers. 
  The 
  principal 
  centers 
  are 
  Burliii};- 
  

   ton, 
  Swanton, 
  Allburg, 
  and 
  East 
  Allburg, 
  on 
  Lake 
  Champlain, 
  and 
  

   Milton 
  and 
  Winooski 
  on 
  the 
  rivers 
  named. 
  Nearly 
  the 
  entire 
  catch 
  is 
  

   shipped 
  to 
  ISTew 
  York, 
  but 
  a 
  few 
  consignments 
  are 
  also 
  made 
  to 
  Boston 
  

   and 
  elsewhere. 
  The 
  disparity 
  in 
  the 
  figures 
  for 
  the 
  two 
  years 
  covered 
  

   by 
  the 
  statistics 
  is 
  due 
  to 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  former 
  year 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  

   seines 
  was 
  prohibited, 
  but 
  this 
  was 
  not 
  the 
  case 
  in 
  1895. 
  Seines 
  were 
  

   the 
  principal 
  apparatus 
  in 
  1895, 
  but 
  hand 
  lines 
  took 
  the 
  largest 
  catch 
  in 
  

   1891. 
  The 
  leading 
  fishes 
  are 
  bullheads, 
  suckers, 
  wall-eyed 
  pike, 
  white- 
  

   fish, 
  and 
  yellow 
  perch. 
  In 
  Franklin 
  and 
  Grand 
  Isle 
  counties, 
  on 
  Lake 
  

   Champlain, 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  frog 
  fishery 
  of 
  some 
  importance. 
  

  

  Table 
  showing 
  by 
  waters 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  persons 
  using 
  each 
  form 
  of 
  apparatus 
  employed 
  

   in 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Vermont 
  in 
  1894 
  and 
  1895. 
  

  

  * 
  Exclusive 
  of 
  duplication. 
  

   Statement 
  of 
  the 
  apparatus 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Vermont 
  in 
  1S94 
  and 
  1895. 
  

  

  