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ONTARIO 



FISHERIES 



1 lie Great Lakes are the largest freshwater fisheries in the worKI. 

 Many lakes and rivers in Northern Ontario are not embraced in tin- 

 regular industry; they are fished only, and to a small extent, In ilu 

 white angler, the half-breed, or the Indian. The regular iMieri.-- 

 cover Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario, Georgian 

 Lake of the Woods and Rainy River, Lake St. Clair and I 

 Thames, and certain inland waters chiefly in Old Ontario. 



The principal fish taken are herring, in Lakes Erie, Ontario and 

 Superior; trout, in Lakes Huron and Superior, and in Georgian Bay ; 

 whitefish, in Lakes Erie, Huron and Ontario, and in Lake of the 

 Woods and Rainy River; pickerel in Lakes Erie and Huron, and in 

 Lake of the Woods and Rainy River; pike, in Lakes Erie and 

 Ontario, and in Lake of the Woods and Raany River; Sturgeon, in 

 Lake of the Woods and Rainy River, Lake Krie, Lake St. Car and 



< r Thames. The classes specified are not confined to these 

 waters. 



Hudson Bay, part of which is contiguous to Ontario, has an area 

 of 500,000 square miles, Straits excluded, and abounds in fish. Tl it- 

 future will see that immense body of water the basis of - 

 fisheries. 



N icld and Value of the Fisheries of the l>n.\ IIKC for the \ car I'M i 



Kind* o 



...II.-.. 



Whllrff 



Trout... ..II.-.. 



Herring 









CMP.. 



',MianiM>. 



ll.M8.S9fl 



S.OSS.4M 



I.OM.ftU 



Ml ::!; 



;."'..' 



160 



I46.1M 



..:,!.::. I 



t.aoc.on 

 m.fMi 



1.418. 517 



I'M, 



I" 



1 ' 



5 

 10 

 8 



60 



Total 



Value. 



| 



IM.M : 







1A7.881 80 



38.797 40 



7,062 00 



.;:,:; f. 



18,700 M 

 M.1M M 



tt.SSS 1* 



2,419.178 21 



The return in 1910 was $2,348,269.57. And the total val 

 Ontario fisheries from 1870 to 1911 inclusive was $54,007,447.72. 

 In iyii there were employed 666 men on 156 tugs of 12,074 tonnage, 

 and 2,740 men on 1,578 boats. The total value of fishing apparatus 

 was $1,258,059. 



