120 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 



TABLE II. 



STATEMENT BY SPECIES OF THE QUANTITY AND VALUE OF THE 

 YIELD OF THE COMMERCIAL FISHERIES OF CERTAIN INTERIOR 

 WATERS OF NEW YORK. 



Species 



1894 



1895 





POUNDS 



VALUE 



POUNDS 



VALUE 



Black Bass 



55,8o6 

 136,827 



!7,3°9 

 24,350 

 3!,44i 

 20,000 

 89,000 

 23,997 

 33,!7o 

 1,500 



$6,230 



6,229 



1,990 



860 



5,498 

 200 



13,35° 



2,107 



3,957 

 33 



45,999 



195,345 



17,5" 



28,920 

 27,016 

 24,000 

 106,130 

 23,034 

 39,o7 6 

 73> OI ° 

 35,655 

 18,700 



29,058 

 21,502 



69,774 



$5,078 

 8,492 



i,994 

 986 



4,627 



240 



15,920 



2,166 



Bullheads 



Eels 



Herring 



Lake Trout 



Ling 



Mascalonge . 



Pike or Pickerel 



Smelt 



4,5o6 



!.!79 



1,225 



!,73o 



2,515 

 2,856 



6,572 



Suckers 



Sunfish 



Wall-Eyed Pike 



Whitefish 



20,165 

 50,466 

 25,688 

 61,400 



1,907 

 4,648 



2,937 

 5> I2 6 



Yellow Perch 



Frogs 



Total 



SQ 1 , 1 ^ 



$55,072 



754,73o 



$60,086 



The great increase to be observed in " Table 1 " of the number of pounds of fish 

 taken from Oneida Lake in 1895 over 1894 is to be accounted for in the fact that 

 certain net fishing was permitted in 1895 that was not allowed in 1894. While the 

 total number of pounds of fish taken in 1895 is greater than in 1894, the number of 

 pounds of certain specified kinds of fish is less. 



In the case of the black bass it must continue to be less from year to year if the 

 present law, which permits fishing during the breeding season of this fish, is not 

 amended to make June a close month. 



It will be noted that the greatest increase is among the common, or so-called food 

 fishes, while the decrease is confined almost wholly to the so-called game fish. 



