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D. LAKE HURON AND ITS FISHERIES. 



234. STATISTICAL SUMMATION. 



Summary statement of persons employed. 



Persona employed. 



Number. 



Fishermen 



Detailed statement of capital invested and capital employed. 



Apparatus specified. j Number. Value. 



Vessels and boats 154 $29,029 



Pounds 189 49 . 425 



Gill-nets 3.540 21,680 



Seines 12,800 



Other apparatus, including outfits 6,380 



Shore property 



155,914 



Detailed statement of the quantities and rallies of the products. 



Products specified. Quantity. Value. 



Primary products. 



Fresh fish pounds.. 10,354,850 i $267,300 



Snltflsh do... 800,800 I 16,000 



Frozen fish do... 1,165,000 63,360 



Secondary products. 



Caviare do... 20,250 2,025 



Isinglass do 300 500 



Oil gallons.. 600 180 



Total 349,365 



235. THE FISHERIES OF THE AMERICAN SHORE. 



HAMMOND'S BAY TO POINT SABLE. The principal fisheries of this section of shore are those 

 at Alpena and the Thunder Bay Islands. During 1879 about seventy-nine men were employed in 

 fishing, many of the assistants being " Canuck" (Canadian) Indians. Nearly all of those who own 

 boats ship the fish which they catch. 



Both pound nets and gill-nets are employed here. The gill-net fishery, however, is the most 

 important. Pounds have been in use for twenty-five years, prior to which time gill-nets and seines 

 were exclusively employed. Except in this particular, there has been but little change in the 

 manner of fishing for many years. In 1879, two thousand gill-nets and about twenty-two pound- 

 nets were in use. The apparatus employed in the management of these nets, together with the 

 nets themselves and the accessories, were valued at $35,000. 



The quantity of fresh fish taken in 1879 was about 2,344,000 pounds, and of salted fish about 



100,000 pounds. The fresh fish consisted exclusively of whitefish and trout, while the salt fish were 



principally lake herring. These amounts were taken by the fishermen belonging to fourteen 



firms, in quantities varying from 20 to 230 tons. The fresh fish, with the exception of about 150 



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