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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
THE GREAT LAKES. 
In the States bordering on the Great Lakes the fyke net is one of the most 
important means of capture, and, taking the entire region into consideration, yields 
larger quantities of fish than any other geographical section except the Middle Atlantic 
States. The fishery is most extensive in Ohio, the shores of which State are especially 
well adapted to the use of fykes; the order of importance of the other States is Mich- 
igan, Wisconsin, and New York. Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania have 
no commercial fisheries carried on with this form of apparatus. The features of the 
Great Lakes which render the region well adapted to fyke-net fishing and have resulted 
in the extensive fishery of this kind there prosecuted are an abundance of fish in the 
shore waters and the existence of numerous coves, bays, creeks, etc., along the borders 
of the lakes especially suited to fyke nets because of the shallow water and the pro- 
tection afforded from storms. 
The extent of the fyke-net fishery of the Great Lakes specified by States is shown 
in the following tables relating to the year 1890 : 
Fishermen. 
States. 
Number. 
Michigan 
231 
New York 
74 
Ohio 
156 
Wisconsin 
112 
Total 
573 
Nets and boats. 
States. 
Fyk 
e nets. 
Boats. 
No. 
Value. 1 
No. 
Value. 
Michigan 
446 
$12,030 
102 
$2, 257 
New York 
684 
9,822 
66 
2, 318 
Ohio 
1,110 
63,650 
139 
14, 045 
W isconsin 
728 
11,364 
66 
5,930 
Total 
2, 968 
96,866 
373 
24, 550 
Products. 
Species. 
Michigan. 
New York. 
Ohio. j Wisconsin. j Total. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Bass 
Catfish 
Eels . . . 
11, 233 
43, 100 
$949 
1,132 
72, 353 
400, 273 
56, 336 
$1, 845 
10, 484 
82, 085 
346, 250 
$4, 504 
6, 920 
17, 810 
$890 
183, 481 
789, 623 
56, 336 
333, 650 
1,716,311 
1, 075, 085 
779, 285 
15,480 
9,685 
1, 262, 255 
25, 705 
$8, 188 
18, 536 
2, 177 
4,446 
25, 679 
37, 161 
11, 994 
645 
465 
10, 601 
514 
1,100 
843, 096 
170, 240 
367, 555 
1, 000 
3, 400 
164, 750 
12 
11, 490 
8, 563 
7, 051 
40 
150 
1, 884 
332, 550 
418, 900 
155, 060 
335, 410 
14, 480 
6. 285 
40, 750 
4, 434 
8, 838 
6, 213 
3,887 
605 
315 
1,019 
Perch 
Pike and pike perch 
Suckers 
Trout 
170, 645 
73, 770 
76, 320 
3,111 
3, 340 
1,056 
283, 670 
676, 015 
2, 240 
19, 045 
TV hitefish 
Other fish 
Turtles 
49,830 
548 
1, 006, 925 
25, 705 
7,150 
514 
Total 
1,605, 474 
31, 271 
899, 527 
22, 561 
2, 420, 650 
40, 373 
1,321,245 
26, 201 
6, 246, 896 
120, 406 
