180 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



was one steamer at Pentwater used in connection with the fisheries ; 

 she carried four men, and tended pound-nets exclusively. 



Products of the fisheries of Pentwater. — The yield of the fisheries of 

 Pentwater amounted to 174,268 pounds, and included 67,591 pounds of 

 sturgeon, 60,500 pounds of whitefish, 20,775 pounds of trout, 11 ,652 pounds 

 of perch, 5,800 pounds of pike, 4,000 pounds of suckers, and 3,950 

 pounds of herring, the entire catch being valued at $7,789. To this sum 

 should be added $190, the value of 9,000 pounds of sturgeon roe and 

 1,005 sounds. The manufactured products were 6,300 pounds of caviare, 

 which sold for $630, and 75 pounds of isinglass, valued at $98. 



Market. — Chicago is the market for the fish, which are packed in ice 

 in fish-cars and shipped by steamer. Fish-cars are not used below 

 this place on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan ; twenty-nine were 

 employed in 1885. 



Statistics. — A complete statistical summary for the entire county fol- 

 lows: 



Men : Twenty-eight professional fishermen, 2 semi-professional fisher- 

 meu. Persons dependent, about 60. 



Apparatus: One fishing steauier, $1,400 ; 4 gill-net boats and 21 other 

 boats, $2,645 ; 254 whitefish and trout gill-nets, 50,800 feet in length, 

 $948 j 26 pound-nets, $7,415; 2 seines, 1,615 feet in length, $160; 

 80,000 feet of set-lines, 8,500 hooks, $95; 29 fish-cars, $375; other 

 apparatus and accessories, $500; wharves, buildings, etc., $1,110; cash 

 capital, $150. Total capital invested in the fisheries, $14,798. 



Products: Fresh fish: Sturgeon, 86,771 pounds; whitefish, 80,500 

 pounds; trout, 28,535 pounds; perch, 13,152 pounds; pike, 7,000 

 pounds; suckers, 4,000 pounds; herring, 3,950 pounds; total, 223,708 

 pounds. Salt fish: Sturgeon, 200 pounds; whitefish, 1,700 pounds; 

 trout, 500 pounds ; pike, 200 pounds ; total, 2,600 pounds. Secondary 

 products: 9,000 pounds of sturgeon eggs, 1,005 sturgeon sounds. 

 Manufactured products: Caviare, 6,300 pounds; isinglass, 75 pounds. 

 Value of salt and fresh fish, $9,857 ; secondary products, $190; manu- 

 factured products, $728. 



63. MASON AND MANISTEE COUNTIES, MICHIGAN. 



Fishing centers. — The fisheries of this section are centered in Luding- 

 ton, Mason County, and in Manistee and Portage Lake, Manistee 

 County. 



Ludington and its fishermen. — Ludington is a lumbering town of 4,000 

 inhabitants, many of whom are foreigners. It is situated on Pere Mar- 

 quette Lake, about a mile from the shore of Lake Michigan. The fish- 

 ing settlement is at the mouth of the harbor. There were twenty-six 

 fishermen in 1885, most of them being Norwegians. 



Gill-net fishery of Ludington. — Whitefish and trout gill-nets are more 

 extensively used than any other form of apparatus, five hundred and 

 ninety having been fished in 1885, Owing to the fact that the fish keep far 



