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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Products. 
LAKE SUPERIOR. 
The fyke has never attained any prominence as a means of capture in this lake, 
and is now the least important form of apparatus there employed. As shown in a 
previous table, only 9 fyke nets were used in the entire lake in 1890; of these, 5 were 
set in Ashland County, Wis., and 4 in Houghton and Ontonagon counties, Mich. 
In 1891 the number of nets employed in Wisconsin was increased to 11, valued at 
$710. Fykes have at times been used in other parts of this lake, but their use has 
never been extensive. In 1883 some nets were experimentally used in Baraga County, 
Mich., for herring, but they were not effective and the fishery was discontinued. In 
1885 a few fykes were fished for wall-eyed pike and pickerel in Keweenaw Bay at the 
mouth of Portage River, but appear to have been abandoned in recent years. The 
chief fish now caught in the fykes is the pike perch, which, in 1890, constituted more 
than half the yield. Trout and whitefish are also taken in small quantities in Wis- 
consin. The result of this fishery in 1890 was as follows: 
Products of the fyke-net fishery of Lake Superior. 
Species. 
I Pounds. 
Value. 
Pike perch 
\~ 
13, 200 
3, 500 
4,000 
3, 875 
$660 
175 
200 
135 
Trout 
Whitefish 7 
Other fish 
Total 
24, 575 
1, 170 
LAKE MICHIGAN. 
The fyke-net fishery of Lake Michigan ranks next to that of Lake Erie in impor- 
tance. The nets are set in small numbers on the eastern side of the lake, but their 
use there is very limited, and the fishery appears to be decreasing; on the western 
shore they constitute a prominent means of capture, being especially important in 
Green Bay and vicinity. Some localities in which fykes were reported in 1885 appear 
to have given up that method of fishing as a commercial enterprise in 1890, while in 
others nets have been introduced. 
The meager references to this fishery in 1880 found in the report on “The Fish- 
eries and Fishery Industries of the United States” indicate a much less extensive use 
of fyke nets than in 1885 or 1890. In 1885 there were 362 fyke nets, valued at $6,105, 
set in the waters of this lake. These were most numerous in the Green Bay region, 
where about five-sixths of the number mentioned were employed. What was written 
regarding the fyke net in this lake in 1885 applies in great part to the present time 
