Great Lakes

Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)

Fisheries of. The following statistics are taken from a preliminary report of the census bureau for the year ending December 31, 1908: Number. Value. Independent fishermen 4,402 Wage-earning fishermen 4,131 Vessels. . . . . 319 $858,669 Outfit (bait, fuel, provisions, etc.) 175,428 Boats. . . . . 3,956 617,042 Apparatus of capture, total 1,830,840 Fyke and hoop nets. . . . . 4,685 120,280 Gill nets. . . . . 146,991 959,110 Lines 22,830 Pots, crawfish. . . . . 13,290 3,290 Pound nets. . . . . 5,435 684,810 Seines. . . . . 656 33,910 Trammel nets. . . . . 530 2,350 Miscellaneous 4,260 Shore & accessory property 1,074,980 Cash capital 257,080 Pounds Value. Products, total $3,767,370 Black bass. . . . . 44,700 6,050 Brook trout. . . . . 18,000 6,280 Carp, German. . . . . 10,152,100 194,260 Catfish and bullheads. . . . . 962,500 49,900 Chub or kieye. . . . . 489,900 22,660 Drum. . . . . 1,489,800 15,550 Herring. . . . . 40,627,900 966,100 Ling or lawyer. . . . . 228,200 2,770 Perch, yellow. . . . . 6,930,100 208,370 Pike and pickerel. . . . . 2,141,800 136,070 Pike perch. . . . . 15,114,900 568,860 Sturgeon, inc. caviar. . . . . 271,100 44,070 Suckers or mullet. . . . . 7,257,500 166,980 Trout. . . . . 12,027,100 800,100 White bass. . . . . 224,100 10,790 Whitefish. . . . . 7,724,500 524,650 Frogs. . . . . 17,000 3,050 Crawfish. . . . . 348,100 13,930 Mink & muskrat skins. . . . . 45,500 14,790 Miscellaneous fish, etc 12,140 These statistics are confined to the fishing industry and do not include wholesale fish dealers or canneries.