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Apparatus. — This consists principally of gill-nets, with a few fykes 

 and seines, the use of which depends upon the proximity of the game 

 constable. The whitefish and trout gill-nets have a 6-inch mesh, the 

 sturgeon nets an 11-inch mesh, and the herring nets a 3-inch mesh. 

 The fykes vary in size from 4£ to 10 feet for the diameter of the main 

 hoops. The dimensions of the seines are 410 by 10 feet. 



Principal species. — The kinds of fish caught are sturgeon, herring, 

 wnitefish, bass, bull-heads, trout, pickerel, and perch. There is also a 

 species allied to the wnitefish, a little larger than the herring, which is 

 locally abundant, and is known by the fishermen as the siscowet or 

 silver wnitefish ; the same fish is found in numbers at Oswego, among 

 other places, but is not identical with the siscowet of Lake Superior, 

 which is a variety of trout (Salvelinus). 



Statistical statement. — The number of fishermen in this section in 1885 

 was 22. They had the following outfit: 3 gill-net boats and 13 other 

 boats, worth $306; 30 sturgeon gill-nets, worth $150 5 21 wnitefish 

 gill nets, worth $120 ; 100 herring gill-uets, worth $495 j 3 seines, worth 

 $80 ; 9 fyke-nets, worth $160 5 other apparatus and shore property, 

 worth $140. The amount invested in the fisheries was $1,451. 



The fish taken iu 1885 comprised 25,000 pounds of herring, 10,900 

 pounds of wnitefish, 10,000 pounds of sturgeon, 9,300 pounds of bass, 

 9,000 pounds of bull-heads, 1,500 pounds of trout, and 5,000 pounds of 

 perch, pickerel, suckers, eels, etc.; the total catch being valued at 

 $2,500. 



105. MONROE COUNTY, NEW YORK, BETWEEN BRADDOCK'S POINT AND 



CHARLOTTE. 



Physical characteristics of the section. — Between Braddock's Point on 

 the west and Charlotte On the east, a distance of 7 or 8 miles, the sandy 

 shore is broken by a series of five deep indentations — Braddock's Bay, 

 Cranberry Pond, Long Pond, Buck's Pond, and Round Pond. These 

 bodies of water are from oue-half a mile to 2 miles long and average 

 about three-quarters of a mile in width. The depth of water varies 

 from 4 feet in Round Pond to 13 feet in Cranberry Pond. Cranberry 

 Pond and Long Pond, and Buck's Pond and Round Pond are connected, 

 during a portion of the year at least, by narrow channels. 



Angling. — This is the only kind of fishing sanctioned in these ponds. 

 They are favorite resorts for pleasure parties from Rochester and else- 

 where in the state, and are carefully watched by the game constables 

 and sporting clubs, and net and trap fishing, except illicitly at night, 

 is pretty thoroughly broken up. As in nearly every other locality on 

 Lake Ontario, the commercial fishermen and the laws are at variance, 

 and a good deal of seining and fyke-netting under cover of darkness is 

 to be expected. At Long Pond there is a good hotel kept up by sports- 

 men, nearly a thousand of whom visit the place annually. 



