142 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



or less numbers at Horn's Pier, Clay Banks, Ahnapee, Kewaunee, Sand 

 Bay, and Nero, by professional fishermen and farmers. The only other 

 fisheries are a little pound- netting at Clay Banks, unimportant seine 

 fishing at Carlton and Kewaunee, and dip-net and trammel-net fisher- 

 ies carried on by farmers in the Kewaunee Kiver. 



Statistics. — The total number of men employed in the fisheries and 

 in the fish trade in 1885 was 69, with a capital of $29,678, of which 

 $16,520 was invested in the gill-net fishery, and $1,158 in the pound- 

 net, seine, and minor fisheries. The products in the same year amounted 

 to 512,840 pounds, worth $19,098; this quantity was almost all trout, 

 there being only 1,800 pounds of whitefish and 22,240 pounds of other 

 fish. Of the total catch, 54,900 pounds of trout and 800 pounds of white- 

 fish, valued at $1,790, were salted. The fishermen sell their catch to 

 dealers at Green Bay or at Ahnapee. The amount of capital invested 

 in the fish trade at Ahnapee was $12,000, including $8,000 for shore 

 property, $1,000 for accessories, and $3,000 for floating capital. 



Gill-net fishery. — This region was settled about 1855, since which 

 time there has been a gill-net fishery of more or less importance. At 

 Kewaunee, where there was only one crew in 1885, there were about 

 twenty crews in 1860, when the fishery was at its height. At Nero, 

 where in 1885 there was no regular fishing, there were over a dozen 

 crews five years earlier. Nineteen crews constituted the total number 

 in 1885, twelve being in Ahnapee and vicinity, where the fishery was 

 more important than ever before. Besides these there were about ten 

 farmers at Nero and Sand Bay, who had one or two nets each, fished 

 occasionally for their own use. Most of the professional fishermen, in- 

 cluding all of those at Ahnapee, fish from about May 1 to December 1. 

 The exceptions are several who discontinue operations for two or three 

 months in the summer. There has never been much winter fishing, 

 though in the winter of 1883-'84 there was a steamer from Ahnapee em- 

 ploying gill-nets. 



The nets used are of ordinary size and make, rigged with cork and 

 lead. The boats are chiefly mackinaws. A small steamer, the Commo- 

 dore N'utt, began fishing from Clay Banks in the fall of 1885. 



The number of men in this fishery in 1885 was 43, including 1 pound- 

 net fisherman who devoted a portion of his time to gill-net fishing, be- 

 sides 10 farmers who fished only occasionally and on a very small scale. 

 The number of nets was 1,597, valued at $7,995 ; the number of boats 

 was 23, valued at $1,830, besides a steamer of 4.60 tons, worth $2,500, 

 and the value of shore-houses and accessories was $4,200. The prod- 

 ucts amounted to 448,800 pounds of trout, 1,800 pounds of whitefish, 

 and 1,000 pounds of mixed fish, making a total of 491,600 pouuds of fish, 

 bringing $18,553, of which 54,900 pounds of trout ancl 800 pounds of 

 whitefish, with a value of $1,790, were salted. 



Pound-net fishery . — Pound-nets have been fished here for many years, 

 but never in any great numbers. There were never more than two 



