FYKE NETS AND FYKE-NET FISHERIES. 
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Considering tlie entire country, it appears that the average number of nets in each 
of the States named is 1,601; the average value of the nets is about $9; the average 
number of nets to a man is 11; the average number of pounds of fish to a net is 477 ; 
the average stock per net is $12; the average stock per man is $131, and the average 
price of the products is 2£ cents per pound. 
The fyke net is adapted to the capture of almost every free-swimming aquatic 
animal found on the coasts, in the rivers, or in the lakes of the United States. The 
following table exhibits the quantities and values of all the principal fishes represented 
in the fyke-net catch. Among the numerous economic species the most valuable are 
the flounders and catfishes, each of which yielded products worth over $42,000. Other 
specially important fishes are pike, pike perch, yellow perch, flounders, eels, striped 
bass, suckers, and shad. On the Atlantic coast the flatfishes are the first in impor- 
tance, in the Pacific region catfish are the most valuable products, while in the Great 
Lakes the pike and pike perch take first rank, followed by the yellow perch. Owing 
to the misapplication of names on the part of the lake fishermen, satisfactory separate 
figures for the pike and pike perch can not be furnished. 
Quantity and value of the principal products constituting the fyke-net catch of the United States. 
Species. 
Pounds . 
Value. | 
391, 245 
$3,144 1 
1, 675 
208 | 
29, 350 
1, 184 J 
48, 850 
880 
. 5, 800 
359 
567, 982 
23,133 
351, 040 
17,534 
1, 744, 830 
42,211 
77, 100 
J, 842 
246, 558 
13, 763 
278, 232 
11, 165 
108, 744 
7, 418 
743, 667 
1, 238 
72, 065 
1, 759 
244, 453 
10, 296 
53, 705 
2, 090 
209, 769 
6, 672 
183, 757 
15, 160 
138, 217 
6, 120 
33, 665 
1,549 
167, 108 
5,981 
97, 200 
243 
20, 000 
125 
12, 420 
2, 845 
5, 827, 432 
176, 919 
Species. 
Atlantic coast : 
Ale wives 
Bass 
Bluefish 
Butter-fish 
Carp 
Catfish 
Eels 
Flounders and flatfish 
Frostfish or tomcod . . 
Perch, white 
Perch, yellow 
Pike 
Menhaden 
Scup 
Shaa 
Spots and croakers . . . 
Squeteague 
Striped bass 
Suckers 
Tautog and cunners.. 
Other fish 
Refuse fish 
King crabs 
Terrapins 
Total 
Pacific coast: 
Carp 
Catfish 
Other fish 
Total 
Great Lakes: 
Bass 
Catfish 
Eels 
Herring 
Perch 
Pike and pike perch 
Suckers 
Trout 
Whitefish 
Other fish 
Turtles 
Total 
Grand total... 
42, 115 
114, 575 
37, 957 
183, 481 
789, 623 
56, 336 
333, 650 
1, 716, 311 
1, 075, 085 
779, 285 
15, 480 
$1, 374 
2, 870 
872 
4, 446 
25, 679 
37, 161 
11, 994 
645 
465 
10, 601 
514 
6, 246, 896 
12, 268, 975 
120, 406 
302, 441 
The typical fresh -water fishes constitute much more than half the product of the 
fyke-net fishery; of these 8,006,013 pounds, valued at $195,898, are given in the pre- 
ceding table. Of the salt-water products, 3,119,849 pounds, valued at $62,338, were 
obtained. Anadromous fishes yielded 1,143,113 pounds, valued at $44,205. 
