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profitable. In bobbing for whitefish in 1861 one man made $128 per 

 month and board at $4 per week. At that time the fish brought 20 to 

 25 cents apiece. 



Haul-seine fishery. — Thirty years ago there was considerable fishing 

 with large seines requiring eight to ten men each; but in 1885 only two 

 seines were fished in the entire region. These were 990 and 1,125 feet 

 in length, and were the property of some of the pound-net fishermen, 

 who used them from May to July and, rarely, later in the summer, for 

 rough fish, such as pike, pickerel, perch, and suckers. The catch yielded 

 $150 to $200 in a season. In 1884 there were three seines, two at Pen- 

 saukee and one at Little Suamico. There were two additional seines 

 owned at Oconto, but they had not been fished since 1883. 



FyJce-net fishery. — Sixteen of the twenty-seven fykes owned in Oconto 

 County belong at Pensaukee, and the remainder, with two exceptions, 

 at Little Suamico. The kind used has a hoop 5 feet in diameter, with 

 wings 82 feet long, and a 165 foot leader. They are set in 6 to 10 feet 

 of water in winter and in still shoaler water in summer. They are 

 fished from the late winter to the early summer for perch, suckers, black 

 bass, pike, and pickerel. 



Other fisheries. — The only fishing not mentioned in the preceding sec- 

 tions is a little pike aud sucker spearing in the rivers after they have 

 opened in spring. 



41. SUAMICO TO GREEN BAY CITY, BROWN COUNTY, WISCONSIN. 



Physical characteristics of the coast.— Above the mouth of the Little 

 Suamico Eiver the shores of the bay begin to rapidly converge towards 

 its head, which, from Big Suamico Eiver, 6 miles south of the Little 

 Suamico, to Green Bay City, is about 7 miles wide and from 5 to 20 feet 

 in depth, the deepest spots in the center not exceeding 4 fathoms. 

 About 2 miles to the south of the Little -Suamico is the line of Brown 

 County, all of which will be treated of in this section, with the exception 

 of the little strip of coast between Bay Settlement and Dyckesville, on 

 the eastern shore of the bay. The principal streams of this region 

 are the Big Suamico, about 4 miles from the county line, Duck Creek, 

 6 miles south, and the Fox Eiver, 4 miles east of Duck Creek, at the 

 very head of the bay, into which it conveys the waters of Lake Winne- 

 bago and the Devil Eiver. The latter flows parallel with the Fox for 

 nearly 15 miles and finally unites with it at Green Bay City. 



Review of fisheries by localities. — Green Bay was founded in 1745, and 

 is therefore the oldest city in the northwestern states. It is now a 

 place of 8,000 inhabitants and the county seat. Its shipping facilities 

 are unsurpassed, as it is an important railway center and the termi- 

 nus of the Fox Eiver Canal. The fishery interests consist of two firms 

 of wholesale dealers and ten crews of fyke-net, seine, aud gill-net fish- 

 ermen. 



