FISHERIES, BY STATES. 



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various pike perches combined, ranked next in value. 

 The value of these five species formed 87 per cent of 

 the value of the entire state fishery product. 



Products, by -fishing grounds. Tables 2 to 6, on pages 

 170 to 172, give, by species and apparatus of capture, 

 the quantities and values of the products of the Michi- 

 gan fisheries in 1908 for Lakes Michigan, Huron, 

 Superior, Erie, and St. Clair, respectively. The lakes 

 ranked in the order named with respect to value of 

 products. The following tabular statement gives the 

 value of the chief species, for the state and for the 

 respective lakes, ranked according to the value for the 

 state as a whole: 



i Less than $100. 



z Mussels. 



3 Muskrat skins. 



The fisheries in Lake Michigan furnished 45 per 

 cent both of the weight and of the value of the entire 

 Michigan product. The yield of Lake Huron was 

 next to that of Lake Michigan, contributing 34 per 

 cent of the weight and 33 per cent of the value of the 

 catch of the entire state. Of the eight species taken 

 in Lake Superior, trout was the most important, repre- 

 senting 47 per cent of the weight and 64 per cent of the 

 value of the products of this lake. A similar prepon- 

 derance of trout appeared in both the vessel fisheries 

 and the shore and boat fisheries. Whitefish and her- 

 ring made up the bulk of the remaining product in 

 both classes of the Lake Superior fisheries. 



Notwithstanding the fact that the Lake Erie fish- 

 eries of Michigan were all of the shore and boat class, 

 15 species of fish were taken. The catch of this lake 

 represented only 8 per cent of the quantity and 6 per 

 cent of the value of the state product. No lake trout 

 were reported as taken in the fisheries of Lake Erie 

 and the lake herring taken formed only a negligible 

 proportion of the product. The German carp, a minor 

 species in the state as a whole, was the most important 

 product of this lake, the Lake Erie catch of this species 

 representing over one-half of the quantity and over 

 one-third of the value of the total catch of Lake Erie 

 for Michigan, and 69 per cent of the weight and 60 per 

 cent of the value of the catch of this species in the 

 state. 



Lake St. Clair supplied about 2 per cent of the 

 Michigan fishery product. The leading species was 

 wall-eyed pike. German carp ranked next in value. 

 These two species contributed 72 per cent of the 

 weight and 71 per cent of the value of the total pro- 

 duct of this lake. 



Products, by class of fisheries. Tables 7 and 8, on 

 pages 172 and 173, give the products taken in the vessel 

 fisheries and the shore and boat fisheries of Michigan, 

 respectively, by species and by apparatus of capture. 

 The following tabular statement gives the value of the 

 products, by class of fisheries and by species, ranked 

 according to the value reported for the state as a whole : 



' Less than $100. 



Products, by apparatus of capture. Pound nets and 

 gill nets both took large shares of the total catch. 

 The larger quantity is reported for pound nets, but 

 gill nets are credited with the greater value of the 

 product. Combined, these two kinds of apparatus took 

 a quantity representing 85 per cent of the total weight 

 and 86 per cent of the total value. 



The value of the catch, by kinds of apparatus, for 

 the state and the respective lake districts, is given in 

 the following tabular statement: 



' Less than $100. 



In Lake Superior gill nets were most important by a 

 wide margin in both classes of fisheries and they were 

 also the leading apparatus of capture In Lake Michigan, 

 but in Lake Erie they were not used, and in Lake St. 

 Clair they were used but little. Pound and trap nets, 

 which were the most important apparatus of capture 



