646 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
The amount of capital invested in the fisheries and related industries 
was 67,474,422, which was apportioned among the lakes as follows: 
eee $596,322; Michigan, $3,489,187; Huron, $851,639; St. Clair, 
3239,885; Erie, $2,196, 397; Sal Ontario, $100,992. 
The “resect included 206 fishing and transporting vessels of 
8,846 net tons, valued at $690,450; outfit of vessels valued at $155,256; 
3,170 boats and gasoline launches, valued at $317,060; fishing appa- 
pe used on ve ooealls and boats to the value of $1,322,570; ere and 
accessory property valued at $2,869,607, and cash capital amounting to 
$2,119,479. The apparatus of capture consisted principally of 4,528 
pound nets and trap nets, valued at $585,998, and 101,890 gill nets, 
valued at $642,961. The investment, as compared with the returns 
for 1899, has increased in all the lakes except Lake Erie, the total 
increase he sing $856,706. 
The products of the fisheries amounted to 86,194,817 pounds, having 
a value to the fishermen of ees The yield of Lake Sipe 
was 13,205,013 pounds, valued at $343,671; of Lake Michigan, 33,579,- 
498 porate: valued at $1,090,550; of oe Huron, 14, 455,209 er 
valued at $450,318; of Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair and Detroit 
rivers, 521,941 sna valued at $21,594; of Lake Erie, 23,188,556 
pounds, valued at $780,015; and of Lake Outre and the St. Lawrence © 
and Niagara rivers, 1,244,600 pounds, valued at $59,353. 
The principal species taken, and the quantity and value, including 
fresh, salted, and smoked fish, were: Herring and chubs, 32,157,329 
pounds, $815,498; lake trout, 16,181,938 pounds, § $799, 595; suckers, 
6,694,040 pounds, $121,576; yellow perch, aie 728 pounds, $139,670; 
ie fish, 3,813,259 aurea! 223,472; blue pike, 4,981,422 pounds, 
$191,386; sales ed pike, 3,076,147 rake S168, 284; German carp, 
4,237,643 pounds, $71,285; bluefin white-fish, 2,729,968 pounds, $83,- 
(49; and saugers, 1,940,355 pounds, $47, 697, Sane and long- 
jaw white-fish, eat-fish and bullheads, sturgeon, fresh-water drum, 
and various cites species were also taken in considerable quantities. | 
Since 1899 the products have decreased 27,532,423 pounds in quan- 
tity, but have increased P1354, 062 1 in value. The greater part of the 
decrease in quantity was in the catch of herring. There has also been 
considerable falling off in the catch of cat-fish and bullheads, fresh- 
water drum, saugers, sturgeon, white bass, white-fish, and yellow 
perch. A few species, including German carp, suckers, lake trout, 
and bluefin white-fish have increased considerably in both quantity 
and value. Bluefin white-fish were not until within recent years taken 
in any of these lakes except Lake Michigan, but in 1903 the greater 
part of the catch, or 2,095,304 pounds, valued at $58,887, was obtained 
in Lake Superior. 
The following tables present, by lakes, the number of persons 
employed, the amount of capital invested, and the quantity and value 
