102 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



will be noticed that the great decrease in all other species has been ac- 

 companied by an increase in the quantity of trout, herring, and stur- 

 geon. 



Statistics of fish trade. — Besides the fish collected by the steamers 

 there were purchased in 1884 by the Escauaba house of A. Booth & 

 Sons 150,038 pounds of No. 1 whitefish, 38,156 pounds of No. 2 white- 

 fish, 35,80G pounds of trout, 131,010 pounds of dories, 9,349 pounds of 

 bass, 23,223 pounds of perch, 381 pounds of herring, and 32,977 pounds 

 of sturgeon. The usual prices paid are 4 cents a pound for No. 1 white- 

 fish, 1J cents for No. 2 whitefish, 2£ cents for trout, sturgeon, and dories, 

 1 cent for herring and perch, and 5 cents for bass. 



The total purchases in 1884 and 1885 are shown in the following 

 tables : 



Fish purchased from fishermen by a firm at Escanaba, Michiga?i,in 1884. 



Month. 



White- 

 fish. 



Trout. 



Dories. 



Sturgeon. 



Herring. 



Bass. 



Perch. 



Total. 



January 



4,748 



734 



1,954 



2,250 



67, 433 



58, 526 



30, 456 



99, 111 



26, 400 



96, 2«5 



71, 893 



22, 867 















4,748 

 1,075 





253 



1,204 



5, 842 



81, 532 



35. 906 



7,142 



1,548 



3.180 



23, 036 



13,887 



88 















381 







3, 539 





10, 366 



73, 575 



21, 922 



11, 440 



803 



5,641 



9,933 



5,156 



72 

 6,193 

 25, 687 

 2,673 

 2,209 

 1,312 

 2,311 

 194 





267 



19, 539 



1 1, 935 



217 



70 



329 



507 



690 



18,797 



May 





6,158 



2,713 



39 



44 



325 



120 



254, 430 







146, 689 





875 



52, 842 





103, 785 







37, 187 





2,797 

 3,567 



134, 939 





95, 387 







22, 867 



















Total 



2 482, 607 



173, 530 



138,924 



40, 651 



7,620 



9,399 



23, 554 



876, 285 



1 Including 331 pounds of bull-heads. 



'Including 112,786 pounds of No. 2 bought between August and December. 



Fish purchased from fishermen by a firm at Escanaba, Michigan, in 1885, exchiding those 



brought from Manisiique. 



Species. 



Whitefish, No. 1 

 Whitefish, No. 2 



Trout 



Dories , 



Sturgeon 



Herring 



Bass 



Perch 



Total .... 



Pounds. 



Value to 

 fishermen. 



223, 648 



$8, 945 



27, 988 



420 



97, 259 



2,432 



82, 284 



2,057 



51, 604 



1,290 



70, 29C 



703 



8,451 



423 



33, 900 



339 



595, 424 



16, 610 



Shipments.— Nearly all of the fish handled are shipped to the firm's 

 central house at Chicago. The following table shows the monthly ship- 

 ments of fresh and frozen fish in 1884. These fish were not all, how- 

 ever, the product of the fisheries of Green Bay and its tributary and 

 adjacent waters, for a portion of them were brought to Escanaba from 

 the house at Manistique for shipment : 



