112 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



pound -uet boats, and 10 other boats, had a combined value of $2,070. 

 There were used 866 gill-nets, worth $3,410, and 14 pound-nets, worth 

 $3,800, besides two haul-seines and three fyke-nets, the total value of 

 the apparatus of capture amounting to $7,685. The cash capital and 

 the value of the shore property and accessories amounted to $7,480. 



The products in the same year were 77,500 pounds of fresh whitefish, 

 58,000 pounds of salt whitefish, 7,500 pouuds of trout, 27,000 pounds of 

 pike and pickerel, 50,000 pounds of fresh sturgeon, 5,000 pouuds of salt 

 sturgeon, 220,000 pounds of fresh herring, 100,000 pounds of salt her- 

 ring, *and 7,000 pounds of other fish, mostly bass and perch. The value 

 of the products to the fishermen was $15,540. 



Pound-net fishery. — The pound-nets of Marinette County are similar 

 to those of the adjoining shores of Michigan. They are owned mostly 

 by residents of Menekaunee and are set singly or in pairs at regular 

 intervals along the coast between that place and Peshtigo Point. Dur- 

 ing 1885 five crews were employed in this fishery, and their pound-nets 

 numbered ten, fished principally for herring, and three for sturgeon. 

 During the previous season (1884) the same men had fished a total of 

 eighteen pound-nets. The products Of this fishery in thaPyear are 

 shown in the following table: 



How sold. 



Fresh 



Salted 



Total 



Whitefish. 



Pike. 



Sturgeon. 



Herring. 



Total. 



Pounds. 

 11,428 



75, 000 



86, 428 



Pounds. 

 3, 335 



Pounds. 



42, 857 



9,000 



Pounds. 

 117, 600 



Pounds. 

 57, 620 

 201, 600 





3,335 



51, 857 



117, 600 



259, 220 



Value. 



$2, 000 

 4,649 



6,649 



Whitefish gill-net fishery.— There are nine crews who fish for white- 

 fish and trout with 45-fathom gill-nets from January 10 to the end 

 of June. As long as the water is frozen over they work through the 

 ice in a manner similar to that of the herring fishermen. After the 

 breaking up of the ice they continue for two months iu the open water. 

 During the ice fishing they shelter themselves with shanties 12 feet long 



and 10 feet wide, made of boards and costing about 



Some of them 



have a stove also, costing from $3 to $8. Each crew makes on an aver- 

 age from $200 to $250 a season in the ice fishing and $500 while fishing 

 in open water. One-tenth of the catch is trout and the rest whitefish. 

 The fish are sold fresh at from 6 to 8 cents per pound. 



Herring gill-net fishery. — In the winter of 1882-'83 two men who had 

 come to Menekaunee from Green Bay City began to fish small-meshed 

 gill-nets through the ice for herring, a practice which had been carried 

 on for several seasons by a few fishermen at their former homes. They 

 did fairly well that season, and others followed their example, so that 

 in 1883-'84 there were six crews, and in 1884-'85 over a dozen, and there 

 seems to be a tendency on the part of the inhabitants of Menekaunee to 

 go into it still more extensively in the future. 



