616 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
The extent of the wholesale fishery trade of Green Bay is shown in 
detail in the following table for the year 1899: 
Products. Lbs. |} Value. Products. | Lbs. Value. 
Black bass....-...----.--- 
Cat-fish and bullheads -.. 
$254 | White-fish (bluefin)-...--. 302, 446 $13, 621 
3,419: ||) Xellow perch': 222 = -cesee 1, 3802, 750 24, 976 
| 
LGR Gh Sse cheeses see Othernshiz¢ -32-e-es cee 54,750 | 3, 039 
Pike and pickerel ........ Mole || ‘Salted MS! <inns22caseeele 1,151,412 | 91,501 
SUGKEIS =.as seas os as eects 5,897 || Smoked fish......-....-.- 137, 742 4, 285 
SUUITLCOD 2..22eeseccccse Pa 1071 +)| Grawiish: vc as. secee acer 7,814: | 248 
PRO UUs Seem toe esas ee ee cie 898, 098 63, 648 ~ 
White bass ............... 120, 025 | 5, 967 Total products ...-.. 9,301,517 | 278, 986 
WYIG=NShis 35252. ccna ae 164, 077 12, 257 
FISHERIES OF LAKE HURON. 
The greatest leneth of Lake Huron is 250 miles, its greatest width 
about 100 miles, and it has an area of about 21,000 square miles. 
The lake is divided into two approximately equal areas by the so-called 
Big Reef, which extends continuously from Point Clark, Ontario, to 
North Point, Mich. North of this reef the lake has a maximum depth 
of 125 fathoms: the southern half of the lake is shallower, the extreme 
depth being only 54 fathoms. 
The number of persons employed in the fisheries of Lake Huron in 
1809 was 1,241, of whom 62 were engaged on vessels fishing, 7 on ves- 
sels transporting, 986 in the shore or boat fisheries, and 186 were 
shoresmen employed in various capacities. 
The investment in the fisheries of this lake amounted to $474,953 
In fishing there were used 9 vessels of a value with their outfits of 
850,215, while 3 vessels were employed as transporters and were 
valued with their outfits at $4,830; 527 boats were in use and were 
valued at $40,835. The value of the apparatus used in the vessel 
fisheries was $28,245, and in the shore fisheries $146,939. The shore 
and accessory property was valued at $148,489, and the cash capital 
amounted to 855,500. 
The products of the fisheries aggregated 12,418,327 pounds, worth 
$308,078. The most important species in point of value was trout, of 
which there were taken 1,887,101 pounds, valued at $80,428. Herring 
amounted to 3,699,807 pounds, worth 860,418; yellow perch, 2,740,669 
pounds, worth $32,690; wall-eyed pike, 1,110,516 Sal worth 
$40,294; white-fish, 592,308 pounds, worth $31,910; suckers, 1,107,490 
pountls, worth $20,320. Other important species were cat-fish and 
pike. 
To the vessel fisheries are credited 1,275,650 pounds of products, 
valued at $55,535, and to the shore fisheries 11,142,677 pounds, valued 
at $252,548. The yield of the vessel fisheries was derived almost 
entirely from gill nets, while in the shore fisheries nearly four-fifths 
of the catch was taken with pound and trap nets. 
