704 EPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
York was $470,606; in Pennsylvania, $495,959; in Ohio, $1,205,002; 
and in Michigan, $24,83 
The products of the fisheries aggregated 23,188,556 pounds, for 
which the fishermen received $780,015. Of ane quantity, 12,448,089 
pounds, valued at $468,821, was taken by vessels, and 10,740,467 
pounds, valued at $311,194, by boats. The yield in New York was 
2,949,305 pounds, valued at $128,445; in Pennsylvania, 8,367,707 
pounds, valued at $305,244; in Ohio, 10,748,986 pounds, valued at 
$317,027; and in Michigan, 1,122,558 pounds, valued at $29,299. In 
the vessel fisheries the products were all taken with gill nets, except 
27,000 pounds of turtles, valued at $1,620, which were cen in turtle 
nets. Inthe shore fisheries, pound nets took 4,471, B24 pounds, valued 
at $142,272; trap nets, 1,365,596 pounds, riled at $32,004; fyke nets, 
959,987 pounds, valued at $18,239; gill nets, 937,733 panne vale 
at $49,097; seines, 2,633,267 pounds, valued at $45,724; lines, 341,260 
pounds, valued at $22,986; and other forms of apparatus, 80,800 
pounds, valued at 872. The species taken in largest quantities were 
aoe. 8,788,625 pounds, $333,844; blue pike, 4,915,357 pounds, 
$188,038: com ian carp, 3,546,752 pounds, $59,198; sauger, 1,940,355 
aotnas, an 697; wall-eyed pike, 908,484 Dende, $49,462; yello ow 
perch, 830,403 pounds, $27,001; suckers, 721,089 pounds, $8,695; 
fresh-ws i drum, 642,445 pounds, $4,513; white-fish, 302,805 pounds, 
$22,988; and sturgeon, Taeladine eaviar, 300,103 Seeing s $26,480. 
About 93 per cent of the herring and 64 per cent of the blue pike 
were taken by vessels, the two species forming over 90 per cent of 
the products of the vessel fisheries. Yellow perch and saugers were 
also caught in large quantities by vessels. The German carp, except 
270 pounds, valued at $2, were taken in the boat fisheries. 
The fisheries of Lake Erie in 1903 were less extensive than in any 
of the recent years (1890, 1893, or 1899), for which statistics are avail- 
able. Comparing the returns with those for 1899, the year for which 
the last canvass was made, there has been a decrease of 1,001, or 27 
per cent, in the number of persons employed; $524,157, or 19 per 
cent, in the investment; 35,205,508 pounds, or 60 per cent, in the 
quantity, and $370,880, or 32 per cent, in the value of the products. 
The decrease in products was principally in herring, but there was 
also a large decline in the catch of cat-fish and bullheads, black bass, 
fresh-water drum, wall-eyed pike, sauger, white bass, white-fish, y eile 
perch, and various other species. The only important species in 
which there was an increase is blue pike. 
