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through holes cut in the ice. All the species common to the region 

 are taken. The most successful fisherman obtained, in 1884, nearly $600 

 worth of fish in twelve fykes. 



Set-line fishery. — After the close of the pickerel netting season, the 

 the fishing for catfish with set-lines begins and is continued until the 

 first of 'July. Some twenty persons, mostly boys, earn about $3.50 a 

 week at this business in the months of May and June. The fish caught 

 average 5 or 6 pounds apiece, and bring 1J cents a pound before being 

 dressed. 



42. BAY SETTLEMENT, BROWN COUNTY, TO NAMUR, DOOR COUNTY, WIS- 

 CONSIN. 



Geographical description. — Between the city of Green Bay and the 

 fishing village of Little Sturgeon is an agricultural section, with a popu- 

 lation consisting almost entirely of immigrants from Belgium, except 

 in the southern portion, where there is a large natiye element. It has 

 been pretty well settled with farmers for nearly thirty years. There 

 are no villages, the post-offices of Bay Settlement, Wequiock, Dyckes- 

 ville, Bed River, and Namur having at most no more than half a dozen 

 houses in their immediate vicinity. The lumbering interests, which were 

 formerly extensive, have greatly declined, and farming and fishing en- 

 gross almost the entire attention of the people. The shores of this por- 

 tion of Green Bay are variable, high in some places and in others low 

 and sandy. The water is very shoal just north of Green Bay City, but 

 deepens las we proceed northward. There are some excellent seining 

 grounds along the coast, south of Red River, especially at Port Sable, a 

 long, low cape about ten miles above the city, said to be the most desir- 

 able site for the prosecution of the seine-fishery on the whole of Green 

 Bay. 



Character of the fisheries. — There never has been any large number 

 of persons in this region who derived from the water their entire sup- 

 port throughout the year, but the fisheries are, nevertheless, of much 

 importance. A number of the farmers south of Dyckesville have seines 

 with which they extensively supplement their income, and there is 

 scarcely a farmer in the section around Dyckesville post-office and 

 north of it who does not make a practice of fishing gill-nets in 

 winter as long as the ice is strong enough to be safe. There are several 

 pound-nets fished near Dyckesville and a greater number just north of 

 Namur. A few fyke-nets and set-lines are also employed. 



(Statistics. — The total amount of capital invested in the fisheries here in 

 1885 was $25,043, of which $3,250 was included in the pound-net fish- 

 ery, $19,145 in the gill-net fishery, $2,365 in the seine fishery, and $283 

 in the minor fisheries. The products, which were all sold fresh, mostly 

 to Green Bay dealers, were worth $18,454, and consisted of 147,000 

 pounds of whitefish, 92,725 pounds of pike and pickerel, 58,450 pounds 

 of sturgeon, 56,125 pounds of perch, 53,580 pounds of suckers, 33,445 



