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taken in small-mesh nets, set three or four miles from shore. Pound-nets are not allowed nearer 

 shore than three miles, so that all fishing is done with gill-nets and hooks. 



Many years ago Barcelona was the most important fishing town on Lake Erie, but at present 

 the grounds are almost entirely depleted. The grounds at Dunkirk were also famous for a long 

 time, but very little fishing is prosecuted in that locality at present. 



23. LAKE ONTARIO. 



There are no important fishing-grounds on the south shore of Lake Ontario between the Niagara 

 lliver and Port Ontario, and very little fishing is carried on along this shore. The only important 

 grounds are located at the east end of the lake and on the north shore within Canadian limits. 

 There are small and unimportant gill-net grounds at Poultneyville, Fairhaven, Oak Orchard, 

 Wilson, Braddock's Bay, Charlotte, and Cole's Landing, near Oswego, where a limited amount of 

 fishing is carried on, the products of which are principally for local consumption. A few small 

 seines are also employed along this stretch of coast for the same purpose. 



At Port Ontario the seining-grounds begin a mile and a half north of Salmon Eiver and extend 

 along the shore towards Sturgeon Point, a distance of about six miles. Outside are located the 

 gill-net grounds, the nets being in from sixty to two hundred feet of water, and from one and a 

 quarter to seven miles from land. 



Near Cape Vincent one pound is located, set in about twenty feet of water, and at Bear Point 

 there are two in eighteen feet. 



Along the entire shore from Port Ontario to Amherst Island, there are numerous gill-net 

 grounds, famous localities being about the Duck Islands and Torch Islands, Long and Bear Points. 



This whole stretch of shore also furnishes suitable grounds for traps and fykes, some localities 

 being particularly suited for bull-head fishing. Southwest of Point Peninsula there is a famous 

 white-fish ground. Traps and fykes are set along the Saint Lawrence Eiver, on the American 

 side, for a considerable distance. 



Sacket's Harbor grounds are situated about Black Eiver Bay, Chaumont Baj', and in the lake 

 off Grenadier and Fox Islands, Stony Point, etc. The principal fishery, however, is located at Duck 

 Island, in Canadian waters. These grounds are considered the most profitable on the entire lake. 



