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Table 6

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Table 6 : Number of Fish Kept by Species in the Great Lakes Fishery - Resident Anglers
Species Lake Ontario Lake Erie Lake St. Clair Lake Huron Lake Superior St. Lawrence River Total Fish Kept in Great Lakes Total Fish Kept in Ontario Percent in Great Lakes
Walleye 121,242 135,046 65,597 545,465 73,943 10,037 951,330 1,600,764 59.4
Pike 25,505 14,669 655 158,280 6,709 3,640 209,458 316,957 66.1
Perch 122,559 582,992 500,216 371,329 24,316 286,038 1,887,449 3,260,595 57.9
Muskellunge 281 - 3,201 - - - 3,482 5,400 64.5
Whitefish 4,385 128 - 7,301 354 - 12,169 67,364 18.1
Smallmouth Bass 16,245 127,418 31,677 217,991 1,505 15,856 410,692 706,957 58.1
Largemouth bass 49,189 17,109 8,602 58,889 - 3,847 137,636 306,612 44.9
Rainbow Trout 36,080 19,188 2,737 132,949 6,945 - 197,898 262,737 75.3
Brown Trout 5,385 1,580 - 2,991 215 - 10,172 19,575 52.0
Lake Trout 7,727 2,988 839 33,423 3,634 722 49,334 119,600 41.2
Brook Trout 2,942 510 - 5,206 23,330 - 31,988 108,267 29.5
Splake 144 625 - 14,525 8,121 - 23,415 35,972 65.1
Chinook 56,645 1,230 912 157,239 1,698 - 217,724 268,362 81.1
Coho 13,358 1,198 1,078 25,693 2,014 643 43,985 72,740 60.5
Sturgeon 2,214 - - - - - 2,214 2,815 78.7
Catfish 80,003 10,639 5,263 46,372 - 47,066 189,344 230,307 82.2
Crappie 9,037 42,913 24,349 66,182 - 1,372 143,853 343,365 41.9
Rock Bass 12,650 14,422 6,093 17,278 - - 50,444 188,911 26.7
Sunfish 32,180 12,753 22,954 2,549 - 45,625 116,060 430,176 27.0
Smelt 95,468 559,664 57,194 154,562 194,951 - 1,061,838 1,274,953 83.3
Other fish 5,541 7,167 1,488 3,626 1,087 781 19,691 74,441 26.5
Total fish 698,781 1,552,240 732,855 2,021,849 348,822 415,628 5,770,175 9,696,869 59.5
average per angler 6.9 22.6 37.0 12.6 21.2 24.2 17.1    

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

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