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were in 1875, a series of five equipped and in operation, viz., 

 the Restigouche, Miramichi (in New Brunswick), and the 

 Tadousac (on the Saguenay), and the York (Gaspe) hatch- 

 eries in Quebec Province. These had increased, thirty years 

 later to twenty-eight, with eleven subsidiary establishments, 

 which were turning out 1,000,000,000 fry (in 1905), more 

 than half being whitefish and yellow pickerel or wall-eyed pike. 



W. H. Venning — An Able Pioneer Inspector. — Of 

 equal importance among these early fishery officials was Mr. 

 W. H. Venning, acting at first as inspector for all the mari- 

 time provinces, but later limited to New Brunswick. It is 

 impossible to overestimate the services of Mr. Venning, whose 

 official reports, the first dated October 10, 1867, are full of 

 wise recommendations and reliable information. His son, 

 R. N. Venning was long chief clerk, and later Superintendent 

 of Fisheries, a position he held when he retired some years 

 ago. His services in the Bering Sea negotiations were notable, 

 and he did a variety of work during his forty years in the 

 Government employment. 



J. C. KiRKwooD AND S. P. Bauset. — When the officials 

 of the Crown Lands Department, Quebec and Toronto, moved 

 to Ottawa at confederation, there were included two men who 

 deserve honorable mention, one Mr. J. C Kirkwood, and the 

 other Mr. Samuel Pierre Bauset. The former was trans- 

 ferred back to Toronto on accepting a provincial government 

 post, but Mr. Bauset remained for a long period as chief 

 clerk of fisheries in Ottawa. He was a perfect encyclopedia 

 of information on fisheries administration and regulation in 

 Canada, was infallible on official precedent and procedure, and 

 possessed of the characteristic vigor and zeal of the typical 

 French Canadian. 



Dr. William Wakeham. — It is impossible to mention 

 many who deserve to be recalled in any review of fisheries 

 administration in Canada, but Dr. William Wakeham, the 

 successor of Pierre Fortin and Napoleon Lavoie, ranks among 

 the most efficient and well-informed officers in the service, 



