Report of the Department of Lands and Forests for fiscal year ending March 31, 1951 



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Table No. 15 



COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES 



OF ONTARIO, BY LAKE 



Table No. 16 



COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES 



OF ONTARIO, BY SPECIES 



1949 1950 increase decrease 



pounds pounds pounds pounds 



Carp 



Catfish and Bullheads. 



Cavia re 



Eels 



Goideyes 



Herring 



Mixed Coarse 



Perch 



Pickerel (Blue) 



Pickerel (Yellow) 



Pike 



Saugers 



Sturgeon 



Lake Trout 



Tuliibee 



VVhitefish _. 



Total 



Net Decrease 



646,184 



902,132 



1,850 



47,861 



49,800 



2,136,951 



3,716,650 



2,698,438 



9,830,912 



3,235,222 



1,027,460 



190,633 



183,814 



1,891,964 



438,174 



7,063,316 



34,061,361 



806,402 



895,401 



1,278 



30,275 



84,068 



1,572,011 



4,063,744 



2,709,773 



8,665,363 



3,509,585 



874,967 



342,655 



167,568 



2,043,671 



400,357 



6,588,695 



32,755,813 



160,218 



34,268 



347,094 

 11,335 



274,363 



152,022 



151,707 



1,131,007 



6,731 



572 



17,586 



564,940 



1,165,549 



152,493 



16,246 



37,817 

 474,621 



2,436,555 

 1,305,548 



DEVELOPMENTS IX THE INDUSTRY 



Trap Nets 



In Lake Erie the long established pound net fishery is gradually being replaced 

 by trap nets. After a year of experimentation, in which one trap net was allowed to 

 be used in lieu of one pound net per fishery, it was concluded that the new type of 

 net was a more economic method of taking fish. Authority was provided to use 

 three trap nets per fishery and later in the year to replace each pound net by one 

 trap net. 



Most of the pound net fisheries were occupied during 1950 in gradually con- 

 verting to the use of trap nets. Trap nets are favoured in many fisheries because they 

 do not require to be anchored by stakes which are expensive and difficult to procure 

 in the proper lengths. The new nets can be set earlier in the season while market 

 prices are apt to be better. Stormy weather which would prevent setting of pound 



