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$15,000 Paid for wages 12,000 Maumee Bay and Monroe County, Michigan, white fish and pickerel: Valuation $20,000 Pounds, seines, and fixtures 9,000 Paid for wages 10,000 Detroit River, nearly all white: Valuation $75,000 Seines, fishing grounds, and fixtures 40,000 Paid for wages 20,000 St. Clair River and Rapids, mostly pickerel: Valuation $11,000 Cost of fixtures 2,000 Paid for wages 1,200 Port Huron to Point au Barque, 3,000 barrels, mostly white: Valuation $25,000 Au Sauble 6,000 barrels, 3/4 white, the rest trout: Valuation $50,000 Boats, nets, etc. 13,000 Paid for wages 7,000 Thunder Bay and vicinity, above Sauble River, 6,000 barrels, mostly white: Valuation $50,000 Saginaw Bay and River, 2,000 barrels pickerel and 1,500 white and trout: Valuation $32,000 Tawas, 600 barrels, mostly white: Valuation $5,000 Between Thunder Bay and Mackinac, 500 barrels, mostly white: Valuation $4,500 Mackinac, including all brought there, 7,500 barrels, 3/4 or 7/8 white: Valuation $62,000 Beaver Islands and neighborhood, 7,000 barrels, nearly all white: Valuation $59,000 Green Bay in Michigan, 3,000 barrels, all white: Valuation $25,500 Island between De Tour and the Saut, 1,000 barrels, 2/3 white, the rest trout: Valuation $8,000 Green Bay in Wisconsin, 2,500 barrels white and 500 barrels pickerel, all packed: Valuation $25,000 Of the catch of Lake Huron, only an inconsiderable amount are sold fresh. On Detroit River about 4,000 barrels were packed last year. Having procured specific information of the cost of outfit and amount paid for wages at the Sauble fisheries, we have taken such expenditures as the basis for those of all the upper lake fisheries in proportion to the catch, which in the main will doubtless prove substantially correct. At the Sauble last season there were sixteen boats employed for two months, and eight for the rest of the season. The value of the boats was $200 each, and the nets, etc., cost
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