92 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



512,907 pounds of trout, 4,000 pounds of sturgeon, 1,350 pounds of other 

 fish, and, in addition, 100 half-barrels of salt fish, worth $475, making 

 the total value of the catch $28,327. 



Trade. — As previously stated, one of the firms operating the fish- 

 eries of this region was extensively en gaged in purchasing fish from the 

 fishermen along the entire north shore. In 1885 the fish thus handled 

 were as follows: 355,800 pounds of fresh whitefish, 78,230 pounds of 

 fresh trout, 21,600 pounds of fresh sturgeon, and 5,200 pounds of other 

 fresh fish; and the following quantities of salt fish, viz, 20,000 pounds 

 of No. 1 whitefish, 15,000 of No. 2 whitefish, 10,000 pounds of No. 3 

 whitefish, 5.000 pounds of trout, and 3,000 pounds of herring. 



35. POINT AUX BARQUES, SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTY, TO POINT DETOUR, 



DELTA COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 



Character of the fisheries. — The fisheries between Point aux Barques 

 and Point Detour are of comparatively little importance. A few gill-net 

 fishermen live in the section, and others from Thompson and Mauistique 

 build fishing shanties, where they remain with their boats and gill-nets 

 during the fishing season. Some of them are provided with small set- 

 lines, which they use in connection with their gill-nets to a limited ex- 

 tent. The greater part of their catch is salted, though a few fish are 

 sold fresh to the collecting boats from Manistique. 



Statistics. — In 1885 there were fourteen crews, consisting of thirty 

 men, with 14 boats and 1,400 gill- nets, fishing along this shore, chiefly 

 in the vicinity of Little Harbor and Craig and Portage Bays. Eleven 

 thousand and sixty-eight dollars were then invested in the fisheries of 

 this section, of which amount the gill-nets alone were valued at $8,050. 

 The catch amounted to 19,500 pounds of fresh whitefish, 6,500 pounds 

 of fresh trout, 153,150 pounds of salt whitefish, and 51,050 pounds of 

 salt trout, the entire yield being valued at $8,647. 



36. BAY DE NOQUET, DELTA COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 



Geographical description. — Although the main waters of Green Bay 

 extend in a southerly direction from its mouth at the Port des Morts, 

 it sends up two arms to the northward, known, respectively, as the Bay 

 de Noquet and Little Bay de Noquet, or more familiarly among the 

 fishermen as " Big Bay de Noe" and "Little Bay de Noc." The former 

 is the one first entered by the navigator who rounds Point Detour. It 

 is about 25 miles long and some 12 miles across at the widest point. The. 

 shores are rather sparsely settled. The peninsula which separates it on 

 the east from the open waters of Lake Michigan has a scattered agricult- 

 ural population, with landings and small settlements on the bay shore 

 at Garden, Fayette, Sack Bay, and Fairport. On the western shore, 

 near the head of the bay, are the hamlets of Brompton, Nahma, and 

 Ogontz. 



