238 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



factured chiefly at Sandusky and Toledo. It sells for about $1.50 a 

 pound. Oil completes the list of secondary products of the sturgeon. 

 It is made at Sandusky, Port Clinton, Toledo, and Irving, and brings 

 40 cents a gallon to the maker. 



Statistical summary. — The following tables show in detail, by locali- 

 ties, the extent of the fisheries of Lake Erie in 1885, and are preliminary 

 to a discussion of the fisheries of the different sections. 



Table of persons employed in 1he fisheries of Lalce Erie in 1885, 



Section. 



Monroe County, Michigan 



Maumee Bay and River (Toledo, Ohio) 



Locust Point to Port Clinton, Ohio 



Sandusky and vicinity, including Bass Islands . . 



Huron, Erie County, Ohio 



Vermillion, Erie County, Ohio 



Lorain and Cuyahoga Counties, Ohio 



Lake and Ashtabula Counties, Ohio 



Erie County, Pennsylvania 



Chautauqua County, New York, west of Dunkirk 



Dunkirk, New York, and vicinity 



Irving, Chautauqua County, New York 



Buffalo and Erie County, New York 



Total 



Fishermen. 



Profes- 

 sional. 



2i4 



429 



132 



590 



62 



61 



137 



102 



225 



9 



7 



9 



1,977 



Semi- 

 profes- 

 sional. 



10 



8(1 



12 



10 



3 



45 

 32 

 33 

 10 



252 



29 



1,183 



1, G99 



Shores- 

 men and 

 prepara- 

 tors. 



32 

 59 

 33 

 232 

 70 

 15 

 68 

 31 

 52 



1 

 29 



"622 



Total 

 number 

 of per- 

 sons em- 

 ployed. 



25G 

 568 

 177 

 832 

 135 



76 

 250 

 165 

 310 



19 

 259 



39 

 1,212 



4,298 



Number 

 depend- 

 ent on 



these. 



721 



1,358 



416 



2,130 



255 



160 



408 



350 



600 



60 



350 



90 



1,800 



8, 698 



Of this number, 524 are employed by the firms who buy the fish directly from the fishermen. 



