578 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Some of the more important species yielded by the fisheries were 
herring, 59,913,576 pounds, valued at $941,067; lake trout, 10,611,588 
pounds, valued at $431,276; yellow perch, 9,584,802 pounds, valued at 
$156,350; white-fish, 5,094,014 pounds, valued at $297,023; blue pike,* 
4,731,782 pounds, valued at $148,740; wall-eyed pike,* 3,311,892 
pounds, valued at $156,503; sturgeon, 1,129,348 pounds, valued at 
$81,085. Other species of less value, but taken in comparatively 
large quantities, were suckers, 4,043,987 pounds, valued at $56,068, 
and carp, 3,674,346 pounds, valued at $52,362. 
The following reports relative to the fisheries of the Great Lakes 
may be consulted advantageously in the present connection. 
The Fisheries of the Great Lakes, by Frederick W. True, elaborated from notes 
gathered by Mr. Ludwig Kumlein. <The Fishery Industries of the United 
States, 1887, Section 11, pp. 631-673. 
The Fisheries of the Great Lakes, by Ludwig Kumlein. < The Fishery Industries 
of the United States, 1887, Section v, vol. 1, pp. 755-769. 
Report on an Investigation of the Fisheries of Lake Ontario, by Hugh M. Smith, M. D. 
Bull. U. §. Fish Com. 1890, pp. 177-215. 
Review of the Fisheries of the Great Lakes in 1885, compiled by Hugh M. Smith 
and Merwin-Marie Snell, with introduction and description of fishing vessels, 
by J. W. Collins. Rept. U. 8. Fish Com. 1887, pp. 1-333. 
The Fisheries of the Great Lakes, by Hugh M. Smith. Rept. U. 8. Fish Com. 
1892, pp. 361-462. 
Fisheries of the Great Lakes, by Hugh M. Smith. Rept. U. 8. Fish Com. 1895, pp. 
93-108. 
Report of the Joint Commission relative to the Preservation of the Fisheries in 
Waters contiguous to Canada and the United States, by Richard Rathbun and 
William Wakeham. House Ex. Doc. No. 315, Fifty-fourth Congress, second 
session, 1897, pp. 1-178. 
Fisheries of Lake Ontario. < Rept. U.S. Fish Com. 1898, pp. CLU-cLvI. 
Statistics of Certain Fisheries of the New England and Middle Atlantic States and the 
Great Lakes. < Rept. U.S. Fish Com. 1898, pp. cLxvi-cLxxv. In this report 
the figures presented relate to the fiscal year 1897. 
STATISTICS. 
In the present report of the fisheries of the Great Lakes for the year 
1899 the statistics are first shown by lakes in a series of tables for the 
whole region. The fisheries of each lake are then considered in detail 
by States and counties, the products of the vessel and shore fisheries 
being shown by species for each form of apparatus. 
The quantity and value of caviar prepared by the fishermen of the 
various lakes and extent of the wholesale fishery trade in some of the 
more important localities are given in separate statistical statements; 
but these data are not to be added to the totals of the regular tables. 
Comparative statistics for certain years from 1880 to 1899, and a 
series of tables in which the fisheries are considered primarily by 
States, are also introduced. 
In all tables relating to products the fresh fish are entered at round 
weight, as when taken from the water. With regard to the sturgeon, 
which is one of the species so treated, a part of the catch is sold round 
and the remainder dressed, while a considerable quantity of the eggs 
*The wall-eyed pike (Stizostedion vitreum), the variety of wall-eyed pike known locally as blue pike, 
and the sauger (Sé/zostedion canadense), are classified in the accompanying statistics under the general 
term ‘‘ pike perch.” 
