$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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