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Table 2

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Table 2 : Number of Fish Caught by Species in the Great Lakes Fishery Resident Anglers
Species Lake Ontario Lake Erie Lake St.Clair Lake Huron Lake Superior St. Lawrence River Great Lakes System Total Fish Caught Percent in Great Lakes
Walleye 927,357 508,091 169,238 360,280 360,621 73,224 2,398,811 4,429,423 54.2
Pike 238,798 210,751 55,682 681,601 142,326 120,892 1,450,049 2,463,110 58.9
Perch 1,246,001 1,206,018 3,999,612 1,660,681 81,144 1,789,077 9,982,534 12,413,441 80.4
Brook trout 129,987 5,429 676 83,001 69,224 0 288,317 626,504 46.0
Lake trout 151,251 41,261 0 244,805 67,413 3,533 508,263 802,154 63.4
Rainbow trout 251,853 89,044 4,638 267,873 41,793 55 655,255 1,028,676 63.7
Brown trout 99,199 94,701 218 25,660 0 0 219,778 310,348 70.8
Splake 16,011 427 0 56,119 7,253 0 79,810 186,240 42.9
Maskinonge 20,764 1,364 2,300 28,634 0 1,236 54,298 168,396 32.2
Smallmouth bass 625,634 414,311 234,233 1,224,880 96,364 116,482 2,711,904 4,481,037 60.5
Largemouth bass 425,836 152,153 229,971 442,407 7,312 32,306 1,289,985 2,333,844 55.3
Whitefish 39,350 31,640 84 52,377 12,645 1,966 138,063 207,255 66.6
Chinook salmon 187,189 23,298 13,712 204,374 7,326 888 436,789 668,522 65.3
Coho salmon 44,929 6,689 4,701 17,250 8,666 317 82,551 131,900 62.6
Smelt 1,363,037 36,905 1,175,324 3,550,504 40,708 0 6,166,478 7,627,111 80.8
Panfish 539,507 398,758 200,980 386,542 34,247 36,351 1,596,384 3,123,156 51.1
Other fish 391,904 173,934 57,946 276,249 7,354 92,512 999,899 1,698,941 58.9
Total fish 6,698,606 3,394,775 6,149,315 9,563,236 984,398 2,268,839 29,059,169 42,700,058 68.1

* numbers of participants are those who fished anywhere on the Great Lakes system

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