32 FISH—CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: 
At Washington Island, in 1878, there were over five thousand 
barrels, equal to fully seven million, five hundred thousand 
young whitefish thrown away, being too small for market. 
Writing from Green Bay, Wisconsin, Mr. Kumlein says: 
‘During the autumn of 1878 and the spring of 1879, a prominent 
dealer at this point collected from fishermen along the shore of 
the bay, large quantities of whitefish, which he purchased al- 
ready packed and salted in half barrels. They were bought for 
No. 1 fish, but in re-packing he found some of the packages to 
contain as many as six hundred fish, and, of course, none were 
large enough for No. 1. There were a very few No. 2, and the 
lot was even barely salable as No. 3. Many were found that 
did not measure three inches dressed.” 
IV. Depletion and Search for New Fisheries—Of the eastern 
shore of Green Bay, Mr. Kumlein says : “ The once famous fish- 
eries of ‘The Door,’ around Washington and St. Martin’s Islands, 
Little Sturgeon Bay and Chamber’s Island are no more. On 
the ground where once stood forty staunch Mackinaws and five 
steam tugs, with about four thousand gill nets, brought to their 
owners in the neighborhood of $100,000 a year, the fishing is 
now carried on by a few superannuated Indians and the gulls. 
The same grounds that in 1873 yielded $4,000 in four months, 
from two pound nets (Chamber's Island), this year have yielded 
not quite $400 worth, and this with nets twice as large. The 
fishing grounds about the ‘Door’ were to the north and west 
of Wee Island, and south and west of St. Martin's, ex- 
tending out in either direction for eight miles, and between the 
two islands the whole distance. These grounds were probably 
the greatest whitefish spawning grounds in existence prior to 
1868. Now they are nearly abandoned both by fish and fisher- 
men. From May rst to August 15th, 1873, Mr. Blakefield, now of 
the firm of Blakefield & Minor, of Fish Creek, sold of fresh 
fish, from two small pound nets, set off el ee Island, $4,- 
175-91 worth. This vear on these grounds, with nets double 
the size, and in twice the length of time, the product has been 
a trifle less than $400. On the same grounds where one boat 
with two men sold from their gill nets $9,000 worth of fish in 
one year, there is no fishing at all now. 
