FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES IN 1885. V 



Lake Michigan on the west side south to Chicago, Illinois, and on the 

 east side south to Frankfort, Michigan. 



Frank N. Clark, Lake Huron, from Hammond's Bay north to the 

 Straits of Mackinac and eastward to the Canadian line. 



S. P. Wires, Lake Huron, from Hammond's Bay to Ottawa Bay. 



E. A. Tulian, Lake Huron, from Ottawa Bay south to Port Huron, 

 Michigan; St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, Detroit River. 



Seymour Bower, Lake Erie, from the mouth of the Detroit River to 

 and including Erie, Pennsylvania. 



J. Frank Ellis, Lake Michigan, from Chicago up the eastern shore to 

 Frankfort; Lake Erie, east of Erie, Pennsylvania; Lake Ontario entire. 



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3. PREPARATION OF THE REFORT. 



The compilation of this review has been delayed for various reasons, 

 and at the time I was appointed in charge of the Division of Fish- 

 eries, in May, 1888, it was hardly more than begun. Chief among the 

 reasons referred to were the press of other matters connected with the 

 routine work of the office, the absence in the field, for a greater or less 

 time, of each of those intrusted with the preparation of the report, and 

 the small force available for writing the details of fisheries of such mag- 

 nitude from field-notes, many of which had been collected by others. 



Appreciating the importance of the publication of material gath- 

 ered in the investigation previously alluded to, I made arrangements 

 at the earliest opportunity for the completion of this review, and dur- 

 ing my absence from Washington, in the summer and winter of 1888, 

 the work was placed under the immediate supervision of Dr. Hugh M. 

 Smith. 



The review is based chiefly on data obtained in 1885. In some in- 

 stances, however, it has been practicable to bring the information 

 down to a later date, the object being to give a clearer conception of 

 the special fisheries under consideration. It has been compiled by 

 Hugh M. Smith and Merwin-Marie Snell. I have added descriptions 

 and illustrations of the boats and vessels engaged in the lake fisheries 

 in order that their peculiarities might be fully understood. 



It has been deemed advisable to publish with the review figures of 

 the different species of fish that constitute objects of the lake fisheries. 



Outline maps show in detail the relations of the lakes to each 

 other, and the condition- of the pound-net fisheries at the time the in- 

 vestigation was made, so far as relates to the number and location of 

 pounds in each lake. In a few instances, however, an apparent slight 

 discrepancy occurs between the number of pound-nets on the maps 

 and the number mentioned in the text. This is accounted for by the 

 fact that the text includes the greatest number of nets in use at any 

 time during the year, while the charts show the actual number and loca- 

 tion of the pounds at the time the various sections were visited by the 



