FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 



703 



in wages. The value of the 5 establishments was $131,700 and the 

 cash capital eniploj'ed $93,079. 



The following table shows in detail the quantity and value of prod- 

 ucts handled in the wholesale fishery trade at Detroit: 



Table s^howbuj tlw e.vtott of the wholesale fishery trade of Lake St. Clair ami St. Clair ami 



Detroit rivers in 1903. 



Establishments .. 



Cash capital 



Wages 



Persons engaged . 



Wayne County. 



No. 



Value. 



8131,700 

 93, 079 



30,717 



Product. 



Fresh: 

 Cat-fish and bullheads ... 



Eels 



Fresh-water drum 



German carp 



Herring 



Pike and pickerel 



Pike perch (blue pike) 



Pike perch (wall-eyed) ... 



Pike perch (sauger) 



Rock bass and sun-fish . . . 



Salt-water fish 



sturgeon 



Sturgeon caviar 



Suckers 



Trout 



White bass 



Wliitc-lish 



Whifc-fish (bluefin and 



tu'libee) 



Wliite-fish (Menominee)., 



Yel 1( Av perch 



other fish 



Lbs. 



101, 272 



17,941 



188, 000 



03, 869 



1,068,089 



208, 948 



010, 281 



597, 395 



30, COO 



18, 000 



88, 946 



27, 931 



960 



137, 404 



1,100,184 



10, 938 



1,617,216 



70, 313 



4, 000 



460, 864 



11,831 



Total I 6, 434, 383 



Value. 



16, 200 



1,159 



4,700 



2, 107 



51,562 



13, 829 



34, 206 



45, 308 



1,500 



690 



5, 998 



2, 919 



668 



5, 058 



72, 204 



447 



129, 374 



3, 016 



240 



18,567 



1, 516 



401,874 



Product. 



Salted: 

 Herring 



Pike and pickerel 



'Pike perch (wall-eyed) 



Suckers 



Trout 



White-fish 



White-fish (bluefin).... 

 other fish 



Total 



Smoked : 



Herring 



Salt-water fish 



Sturgeon 



Trout 



White-fish 



Total 



Grand total 



Lbs. 



2, 519, 404 



27, 809 



3,286 



239, 908 



18, 120 



82, 378 



9, 050 



.592 



2, 900, 547 



68, 835 



23, 551 



1,000 



1,240 



15, 238 



109,864 



9, 414, 793 



Value. 



1111,068 



1, 7.56 



216 



9, 598 



1,087 



0, 348 



366 



29 



130, 468 



7,962 



1,266 



200 



75 



1,C66 



10, 569 



542, 911 



FISHERIES OF LAKE ERIE. 



The fisheries of Lake Erie in 1903 gave employment to 2,727 persons, 

 of whom 633 were on vessels fishing and transporting, 1,591 on boats 

 in the shore fisheries, and 503 were shoresmen in connection with the 

 fisheries and the various fishery industries. Following is the number 

 of persons credited to the different states bordering on this lake: 

 New York, 1,017; Penn.sylvania, 487; Ohio, 1,101; and Michigan, 122. 



The total amount of capital invested in the fisheries of the lake was 

 $2,196,397. This included 102 fishing and transporting vessels, of 

 1,859 net tons, valued at $378,650, with outfits valued at §62,428; 467 

 boats, valued at §22,208; 39 gasoline launches under 5 tons, valued at 

 $26,950; fishing apparatus used on vessels and boats to the value of 

 $379,776; shore and accet^sory property in the fisheries and wholesale 

 fishery trade, valued at $919,635; and cash capital utilized in the 

 fishery industries, amounting to $406,750. The investment in New 



