Iv INTRODUCTION. 
$412,750. The principal commercial fishes were blue pike, lake herring, 
white fish, suckers and other fish of the same family, sturgeon, perch, 
pike perch, lake trout, cat fish, saugers, bass, grass pikeand muscalonge, 
these being named in the order of their aggregate in weight. The total 
catch of these species for the year amounted to 10,793,500 pounds. 
Only a few lake trout were taken off Erie and those were large, weigh- 
ing from twenty five to forty pounds each. White fish are caught in 
Erie county chiefly in July, August and November, Lake herring and 
blue pike are taken chiefly in April and the early part of May. 
The whole number of species credited to Pennsylvania is one hundred 
and fifty-seven. The families which are represented by the largest num- 
ber of species are those including the cat fishes, suckers, minnows, sun- 
fishes and darters. 
The following is a provisional statement of the distribution of the 
species with reference to the Lake Erie basin, the Ohio valley, and the 
streams of the Atlantic drainage system. The fish fauna of Lake Erie 
is not sufficiently known to enable me to present it with certainty and 
completeness. 
DISTRIBUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA FISHES. 



Lake Ohio Atlantic 
Irie. valley. basin. 

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—32. Catostomus teres, 
—33. Catostomus nigricans, . 
—34. Erimyzon sucetta, . 
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