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Title: American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of the whitefish. At one timethe trout was so abundant that it did not command a price at allcommensurate with its edible qualities, but as the catches decreasedthe price went up, until in 1886 it equalled that of its more delicaterival. In that year the artificial propagation of the lake trout wasbegun by the Federal and certain State governments. The outputof the hatcheries increased gradually until, in 1895, that of theGovernment hatchery at Northville alone amounted to over11,000,000 eggs; and the species had become so abundant in thelakes in 1896 that the fishing boats ceased operations, the marketbeing glutted, and the price obtainable not justifying the labourinvolved. The method of capturing the lake trout is by gillnets, pound-nets, hook and line, and, in winter, by spearing through the ice. The majority, however, are taken by means of gillnets operatedby steam tugs. Some of these tugs carry 5 or 6 miles of nets andcatch in one lift from 1,000 pounds to 4 or 5 tons of trout.
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The Siscowet Fishing is done from tiie time the ice breaks up in the spring untillate in the fall. Lake trout spawn on the reefs and live in deep water at othertimes. The spawning season begins in Lake Superior late inSeptember, in Lakes Huron and Michigan the height of the seasonis in early November, and spawning continues into December.The spawning grounds are on the reefs of honeycomb rock,lo to 15 miles off shore, and in water 6 to 120 feet deep. Thenumber of eggs produced is not large; a 24-pound fish produced14,943 eggs, but the usual number does not exceed 5,000 or 6,000. As a game-fish the lake trout is held in different degrees ofesteem by different anglers. There are those who regard it withslight f^ivour, while with others it is rated as a fish which cangive the angler a great deal ot sport. It is usually taken by trollingeither with the spoon or live minnow, and, as it is a powerfulfish, strong tackle is required. Thaddeus Norris, most delightfulwriter among American angle

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