PRODUCTS OF THE PRINCIPAL FISHERIES IN DETAIL. 



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A large number of vessels engage in the winter 

 herring fishery off the west coast of Newfoundland. 

 The greater part of the catch was taken with pound 

 nets, trap nets, and weirs. The distribution of the 

 product by apparatus of capture was as follows: 



Lake herring (LeucichtTiys) . — The ciscoes, or lake 

 herrings, are members of the whitefish family found 

 in the Great Lakes and neighboring waters. There 

 are various species popularly known as herring, with 

 or without qualifying names, the common form 

 (L. artedi) being most important. 



Lake herring has always been the leading species 

 from the Great Lakes, and in 1908 the value of the 

 catch was $989,000, or 26 per cent of the total value 

 of the fishery products of this division. Of the total 

 value of the United States product it contributed 2 

 per cent, and of the value of fish proper 3 per cent. 

 Considerably over one-half of the entire catch was 

 made in Lake Michigan, where this fish represented 

 over one-half of the weight and one-third of the value 

 of the total product. 



The following tabular statement gives the quantity 

 and value of the catch, distributed by fishing grounds : 



i Less than 1 per cent. 



Nearly five-eighths of the quantity of the product 

 was reported as marketed fresh, the remainder being 

 salted or smoked. The following tabular statement 

 gives the statistics of the catch according to the con- 

 dition in which it was marketed, the states being 

 ranked according to the value of their catch: 



i Includes 3,925,000 pounds of smoked lake herring, valued at $67,000, distributed as follows: Wisconsin, 3,921,000 pounds, valued at $67,000, and Minnesota, 4,000 

 pounds, valued at $200. 

 2 Less than 1 per cent. 



Every state bordering on the Great Lakes shared 

 in the catch, but Wisconsin and Michigan took far 

 greater quantities than any others, the Michigan 

 catch being the largest and the Wisconsin catch of 

 the greatest value. The higher value of the Wisconsin 

 product was due to the fact that more than one-half 



was sold fresh, while only about one-third of the 

 Michigan product was so marketed. The bulk of the 

 salted herring was from Michigan, and nearly all the 

 smoked product was from Wisconsin. 



Comparative figures for certain years are given in 

 the following tabular statement: 



