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GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF THE FISHERIES. 



B. LAKE SUPERIOR AND ITS FISHERIES. 



228. STATISTICAL SUMMATION. 



Summary statement of persons employed. 



Persons employed. 



Number. 



Fishermen 414 



Detailed statement of capital invested and apparatus employed. 



Apparatus specified. Number. Value. 



Vessels and boats 155 $26,150 



Pounds 43 14,950 



Gill-nets 4,630 25,280 



Seines 32 2,010 



Other apparatus, including outfit ] [ 290 



Shore property | 1 2, 700 



Total 81,380 



Detailed statement of the quantities and values of Hie products. 



Products specified. Pounds. Value. 



Freshfish | 1,494,500 $47,780 



Salt fish 1,549,500 57,755 



Total... 103,535 



229. THE FISHERIES OF THE NORTHWESTERN SHORE, INCLUDING DULUTH. 



THE NORTHWESTERN SHORE. The northwestern shore of Lake Superior is hilly and moun- 

 tainous in character, and for the most part deeply wooded. The small hamlets which exist here are 

 chiefly lumbering stations, and the fisheries receive little or no attention. Fish are abundant, 

 however, iu the neighboring waters, as is proven by the fact that they are visited by fishermen from 

 Duluth and other towns on the south shore. 



DULUTH AND VICINITY. Duluth, named after the French explorer and soldier, J. Duluth, is 

 the most westerly village on the lakes, which is interested to any considerable extent in the fish- 

 eries. It is situated on the side of one of the numerous hills which exist in this section, at the 

 head of a harbor known as Duluth Bay. The Government has spent considerable money in improv- 

 ing the entrance to the harbor and in building light-houses and breakwaters, not, however, in the 

 interest of the fisheries, but for the grain trade and other branches of commerce in which Duluth 

 is more especially engaged. The village was formerly chartered as a city, but has recently given 

 up its charter. 



The fisheries are carried on by thirty-five men. About sixteen of them participate iu gill-net 

 fishing, eleren in pound fishing five being in charge of the steam-tug, and six managing the 

 nets and the rest in seine fishing. 



The gill-net fishery is the more important and about four hundred and eighty nets are iu use. 



