10 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
This, at the rate allowed in the Michigan report (3 cents per pound), 
is equal to $818,849.25. But if taken, as the Canadian product is, not 
by a general average, but at their figures for each species, the result 
will be as follows : 
Michigan product, 1885- 
Kind. 
Pounds. 
Price. 
Value. 
Whitefish. 
9. 985, 015 
5, 469, 812 
5, 249, 384 
1, 530, 161 
5,060,603 
Cents. 
74 
$718,821 08 
410, 235 90 
126,510 15 
76, 508 05 
151,818 09 
Trout 
74 
Herring 
2 | 
Pickerel, bass, and sturgeon 
5 
Other kinds 
3 
Total 
27,294,975 
5 * 
1, 483, 893 27 
Product of Michigan and Ontario, 1885. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Michigan 
27, 294, 975 
28, 777, 018 
$1, 483, 893 27 
1,342,691 77 
Ontario 
"Difference 
1, 482, 043 
141, 201 50 
The excess of the Ontario product over that of Michigan is thus seen to 
be 1,482,043 pounds, while the value of the Michigan product is $141,201.50 
above that of Ontario. This result is accounted for by the larger pro- 
duction of whitefish in Michigan waters, as shown by the following com- 
parison : 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Michigan . . - 
9, 9^5, 015 
3, 938, 500 
$718, 821 08 
282, 950 00 
Ontario 
6 , 046, 515" 
435, 871 08 
Or if the Michigan product is figured at what is probably the exact 
Ontario average price, as their fish run, that is, 4f cents per pound, it 
is $1,271,945.83. But, in view of the larger production of whitefish in 
the Michigan catch, it does not appear that the above comparison is at 
all unfair. 
Taking the products of the two States as about equal in quantity and 
value, there is a very noticeable difference in the amounts expended by 
each in the care and conservation of this industry, as shown above. 
The coast line of each State is of the same length, about 2,000 miles. 
Detroit, Mich., March , 1887. 
