. Lands, fisheries and game, minerals . Great Lakes together with theextent in square miles of the lakes themselves. These whitefish areashave been obtained by measuring with a planimeter the areas plotted onthe maps. The lake areas are taken from H. M. Smith, 1894. Area of each of the Great Lakes, Whitefish Area of each, andPercentage of Whitefish Area Total area Whitefish area Percentage ofWhitefish area Lake Superior Square miles 32,000 22,000 21,000 9,500 6,500 Square miles7,4002,6009,4004,1002,200 23 Lake Michigan 12 Lake Huron 45 Lake Erie 43 Lake Ontario 34 Total 91,000 25,700 28 It is
. Lands, fisheries and game, minerals . Great Lakes together with theextent in square miles of the lakes themselves. These whitefish areashave been obtained by measuring with a planimeter the areas plotted onthe maps. The lake areas are taken from H. M. Smith, 1894. Area of each of the Great Lakes, Whitefish Area of each, andPercentage of Whitefish Area Total area Whitefish area Percentage ofWhitefish area Lake Superior Square miles 32,000 22,000 21,000 9,500 6,500 Square miles7,4002,6009,4004,1002,200 23 Lake Michigan 12 Lake Huron 45 Lake Erie 43 Lake Ontario 34 Total 91,000 25,700 28 It is to be noted that the area occupied by the true whitefish is rela-tively least in Lake Michigan, where it forms but 12 per cent, of the lakearea. Lake Erie comes next with a whitefish area 14 per cent, of its totalarea, if the eastern part of the lake only is taken, but if the western plat-form of Lake Erie be included over depths of 12 to 30 fathoms, its white- (a) Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII, p.
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