TI)€ Commercial Fisheries of L>a^e Erie, 

 Lai^e Ontario, and ffye Niagara and 

 31 Isavrence Rjvers. 



By JOHN N. COBB, Agent of the U. S. Fish Commission. 



(Published by permission of the Hon. George M, Bowers, U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.) 



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HE State of New York is 

 favorably situated for the 

 prosecution of the commer- 

 cial fisheries. In the eastern and 

 southeastern portion of the State 

 there are extensive vessel and boat 

 fisheries for sea and fresh-water 

 fishes, mollusks and crustaceans. On 

 /'&&. w w'v xi** the various inland lakes and streams 



sport fishing is extensively carried 

 on, but there is little commercial fish- 

 ing in those waters. Lakes Erie and 

 Ontario have very valuable commer- 

 cial fisheries ; this is true to a less 

 extent of the Niagara and St. Law- 

 rence rivers. During the year 1900 

 the writer was detailed by the U. S. 

 Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries 

 to investigate and report upon the 

 condition of the commercial fisheries 

 of the last-named waters for the year 



1399; the following report presents in a condensed form the information .then 



collected. 



A METROPOLITAN FISHERMAN. 



