106 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



seines used are about 495 feet in length and are worth $150 each. About 

 two-thirds of the catch consists of pike and pickerel, and the rest mostly 

 of perch. The entire yield is sold fresh at 2 cents a pound for the dories 

 and 1 cent for the perch. 

 The following table shows the catch of three seines in 1884 : 



Month. 



Whitefish. 



Dories. 



Sturgeon. 



Bass. 



Perch. 



Bull-heads. 



Total. 





Pounds. 

 102 

 120 



Pounds. 

 1,197 

 1,812 

 1,311 

 1,083 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 

 97 



Pounds. 

 1 396 



May 



15 



64 



825 

 55 



27 



482 

 16 



3,254 

 1 446 







July ........... 







1,110 















Total 



222 



5,403 



79 



907 



498 



97 



7,206 



Ice-fishing. — There is some spearing through the ice, but the prin- 

 cipal fishery carried on during the winter is that with gill-nets. There 

 are twelve crews, of two men each, in Little Bay de Noquet, fishing in 

 that manner. Four of the crews have sixty nets each, and the others 

 from six to thirty nets. Their fishing usually begins just after Christmas 

 and lasts for four or five weeks. Each fisherman takes a little shanty 

 with him on the ice for protection while fishing. If fishing is good, 

 almost every man in the vicinity will put a net in, and it is claimed 

 that the number of nets in the water frightens away the fish, so that 

 they leave earlier than would otherwise be the case. At any rate, 

 by the first of February it is found no longer profitable to keep the nets 

 in the water, and the last of them are soon taken up. The average catch 

 is 5 tons to each crew, consisting of whitefish and trout in the propor- 

 tion of three to one. During the height of the fishing the average catch 

 would amount to about 2,000 pounds a week. There are several fisher- 

 men, one of them living at Misery Bay, who fish 3-inch nets for ciscoes 

 during the same season and in the same manner. 



Other fisheries. — There is no other fishing in the Little Bay de Noquet 

 and its vicinity, with the exception of a few fyke-nets used by one of 

 the residents of Masonville. 



38. MENOMINEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 



Geography.— Delta County, which encircles the northern end of Green 

 Bay, extends down the shore to a point about 9 miles south of Bark 

 River. Menominee County includes the remainder of the shore to 

 Menominee Eiver, which forms the southern boundary of this portion 

 of the State. Cedar River, the only other stream of any importance, is 

 about 7 miles below the Delta County line. 



The beach is uniformly shelving and the depth increases very grad- 

 ually, not reaching the four-fathom line until more than a mile from the 

 shore. The bottom is of sand and clay and furnishes a firm support for 

 pound-net stakes. 



Inhabitants. — The city of Menominee is the only important place on 



