FISHERIES, BY STATES. 



121 



i Exclusive of four proprietors not fishing. 



' Includes provisions furnished to the value of $1,200. 



Equipment and other capital. The next tabular 

 statement gives the value of the investment in the 

 Indiana fisheries, with its distribution between the 

 Lake Michigan and the Ohio River districts. 



1 Less than $100. 



The statistics of the number and tonnage of vessels 

 and the number of boats are as follows: 



The value of shore and accessory property in 1908 

 amounted to $4,600 for vessel fisheries and $13,000 

 for shore and boat fisheries, while the amount of cash 

 reported for vessel fisheries was $800 and for shore 

 and boat fisheries $4,100. The total capital credited 

 to vessel fisheries was therefore $16,000 and to shore 

 and boat fisheries $58,000. 



Apparatus of capture represented more than a 



third of the entire investment. The number of the 

 kinds of apparatus was as follows: 



Dip nets 25 



Fyke nets 919 



Gill nets 809 



Pound nets 37 



Seines 30 



The pound nets and gill nets were used wholly in 

 Lake Michigan. All except 192 of the gill nets were 

 used in the shore and boat fisheries. 



Products, l>y species. The products, by species and 

 apparatus of capture, for all fisheries of the state are 

 shown in Table 1, on page 123. The entire product 

 was taken by the shore and boat fisheries, with the 

 exception of 3,000 pounds of herring, valued at $100, 

 and 112,000 pounds of trout, valued at $8,000, which 

 were taken by the vessel fisheries of Lake Michigan. 

 The mussel fishery furnished the bulk of the product. 

 The catch of fish proper amounted to only 1,076,000 

 pounds, or 7 per cent of the total, and was valued at 

 $69,000, or only 31 per cent of the total. These 

 figures, however, represent an increase over the food 

 fish caught in 1903 of approximately 66 per cent in 

 weight and 125 per cent in value. 



Products, by fishing grounds. The fishery products 

 of the Ohio River and its tributaries, by species and 

 by apparatus of capture, are given in Table '2, on page 

 123, and those of Lake Michigan are similarly given 

 in Table 3, on page 123. 



The fisheries of the Ohio River district were all of 

 the shore and boat class. The entire product of mus- 

 sels, pearls, and slugs came from these waters, con- 

 tributing 85 per cent of the total value for the district. 

 The fish product proper of this district amounted to 

 455,000 pounds, valued at $27,000, and consisted 

 chiefly of catfish, buffalo fish, drum, and German 

 carp, ranking in value in the order named. 



All of the Lake Michigan product was food fish, 

 while in the Ohio River district only 15 per cent of 

 the value represented food fish. In the lake fish- 

 eries trout, lake herring, yellow perch, sturgeon (in- 

 cluding caviar), and whitefish were the leading species 

 and formed 91 per cent of the lake catch. 



The chief products, ranked in the order of tke value 

 reported for the state, are given in the following table, 

 by districts: 



