BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 9 
The total fish product of the province of Ontario for 1885 in value 
was $1,342,691.77, or a little over 4§ cents per pound on the average. 
Pounds. 
Whitefish 3,938,500 
Trout 5,431,654 
Herring 11,941,200 
Muskallonge 565, 400 
Bass 636,397 
Pickerel , 1,757,494 
Sturgeon . 1,459,035 
Pike 468,430 
Other kinds, coarse fish and eels 2, 578, 908 
Total 28,777,018 
This statement includes 913,100 pounds of fish consumed at home by 
the fishermen and their families or by others, so as not to appear in the 
totals of the amount marketed. 
During 1885 the expenditure for u fishery service” for the Dominion 
was $153,215.56; for fishery officers, $77,821.67; and for fish-breeding, 
$43,879.82. 
For the province of Ontario, in 1885, there was expended — 
For fishery officers, salaries and expenses $17, 135 98 
For fish-breeding 8, 690 15 
Total 25,826 13 
It should be noticed that the figure $8,690.15 for fish-breeding does 
not include the salary of the superintendent or office expenses. Fur. 
ther, it is for the maintenance of two fish-breeding establishments; one 
at Newcastle, for trout and salmon, and one at Sandwich for whitefish 
and pickerel. The State of Michigan maintains four establishments or 
hatcheries, the estimated cost of which was $9,476. On the basis of 
these figures the output of young fish is about 20,000,000 in excess of 
the Canadian hatchery product, while the excess of expenditure is only 
about $800. It should also be noticed that the expenditure in Michigan 
for all purposes connected with the fisheries was, for 1885, but $12,000 
(not including permanent improvements), against the Canadian ex- 
pense for the same year, for fish-breeding and care of the fisheries, 
$25,826.13, as given above. 
The force of this comparison will be more fully appreciated from the 
figures given below, which show the product of Michigan fisheries to 
be about equal to those of Ontario in weight; and if the values are 
computed at the same rate as the Canadian, the total value will be 
about the same. 
In the seventh Michigan report (1886) the catch of 1885, as there 
estimated, is 26,381,875 pounds. Adding to the amount allowed by the 
Canadian report for home consumption, not reported, 913,100 pounds, 
we have, as the total to be estimated, 27,294,975 pounds. 
