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Disposition of catch and prices received. — None of the fish landed at 

 this place are salted. One man smokes his herring and markets them 

 in Toronto, Canada. Nearly all the other fish are shipped by express 

 to New York. The usual price at which sturgeon are sold is 5 or 6 

 cents a pound. But during the months of July and August, 1885, many 

 fishermen were forced to cease operations owing to the very low price 

 received for the fish. Herring bring 3 cents a pound, while bass, bull- 

 heads, whitefish, and trout are worth from 6 to 8 cents a pound. 



Statistics. — The number of fishermen in this locality in 1885 was 22, 

 of whom 8 were professional and 14 semi-professional. They had the 

 following apparatus : Three gill-net boats and 11 other boats, valued 

 at $105 ; 102 sturgeon gill-nets, with a total length of 16,830 feet, worth 

 $520 j 11 white-fish and trout gill-nets, 1,815 feet long, worth $55; 55 

 herring gill-nets, 8,960 feet in length, worth $262 ; 168,000 feet of set- 

 lines, with 11,200 hooks, worth $100; and miscellaneous apparatus and 

 shore property, worth $280 ; the entire fishing outfit being valued at 

 $1,622. 



The catch in 1885 consisted of 36,790 pounds of sturgeon, 27,000 

 pounds of herring, 2,500 pounds of bull-heads, 1,500 pounds of bass, 

 126 pounds of whitefish, 70 pounds of trout, 1,000 pounds of eels, and 

 3,800 pounds of mixed fish, such as perch, suckers, etc., with a total 

 value of $3,252. 



103. ORLEANS COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



The fishing centers in the county. — The coast of Orleans County is 

 about 25 miles in length, extending in an almost due easterly direction 

 from Thirty-Mile Point to Devil's Nose. The entire shore-line is rocky 

 and has no good harbors. The fishiug grounds are at Yates Pier, 

 Johnson's Creek, Oak Orchard, and Troutville, Yates Pier is the fish- 

 iug headquarters for the inhabitants of Yates Center, a village of 200 

 people, 3 miles from the lake. The locality is also visited occasionally 

 by fishermen from Wilson and Olcott. Johnson's Creek is 5 miles east 

 of Yates Pier. The fishing off its mouth is carried on by fishermen 

 from Kuckville, a small village on the creek, about 2 miles from the 

 lake. Oak Orchard is a community of about 100 people at the mouth 

 of Oak Orchard Creek. It is a port of entry. Off the Government 

 pier the water is 13 feet deep; there is a bar, however, covered with 

 ouly 8 feet of water, and the harbor is fast filling up. Carlton is the 

 post-office of Oak Orchard, and is a mile to the south. Ten miles 

 farther east is Troutville, a village of 100 people, mostly farmers. A 

 number of years ago it was a fishing center of some importance, but at 

 the present time there are no regular fishermen here and the fisheries 

 are carried on almost exclusively by men from the inland towns of Ken- 

 dall, East Kendall, and Kendall Mills. 



All of the places previously mentioned are favorite resorts for anglers 

 during the summer months ; at Oak Orchard and Troutville there are 

 iiotels for the accommodation of sportsmen and pleasure-seekers, 



