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In the Gulf States. the percentage of increase in 
persons employed is 137.95; the capital invested, 82 ; 
and the increased value of the products, 103. 
In the Pacific States the number of persons employed 
is about the same as in 1880;.the investment of capital 
has more than doubled, while the aggregate increase in 
value of products amounts to 30 per cent. 
In the Great Lake States the percentage of increase 
in persons employed is 92.63; of capital invested 232.7 ; 
the increased value of the products rising only to 38.52 
per cent. 
The figures for the Great Lakes are very significant. 
With nearly double the number of persons employed in 
the fisheries, and with upward of 50 per cent. increase 
in the capital invested, there is but 17 per cent. increase 
in the total value of the product. This comparison is 
more significant when we consider that the increased . 
production has been brought about by the utilization 
for market supply of species of fish such as the herring 
and others which constitute but an insignificant portion 
of the total products of 1880. The most important 
fishery of 1880—that of the whitefish—has vastly 
deteriorated, the take in 1892 being considerably less 
than one half of the catch of 1880. And this result 
has arrived in spite of the fact that artificial propagation 
of the whitefish has been carried on on a stupenduous 
scale by the different State Commissions and by the 
United States Commission on all of the great lakes. 
This deterioration in the number of whitefish is clearly 
to be attributed to the methods employed, and the 
necessity of some restraint upon these methods is 
imperatively indicated, not only in the general interest 
of the consumer but in the interest of the fisheries 
themselves. 
I would now call your attention to a table of the com- 
parative statistics of the catch of certain species of fish 
in 1880 and 1892, taken from the same report: 
