1907 GAME AND FISHERIES. 43 



Overseer A. Knox, Jr., Carleton Place, reports that the game and 

 fishery laws have been well observed during 1907. The supply of game and 

 fish in the waters in his district during the past season, owing to the care 

 and attention expended, has in his opinion greatly improved. In the month 

 of May he found two gill nets that were illegally set, but he could not find 

 out who set them. 



Overseer E. T. Loveday, Ottawa, reports as follows: — In regard to fish, 

 bass, pickerel and maskinonge are about the same as other seasons. Some 

 heavy bass have been taken — 4, 5, 6 and 6^ lbs. 



Sawdust is allowed to go in the river just the same as other years. 

 There was a big kick from boat clubs, fishermen, etc., through the papers, 

 and reporters and others came to see him. He in turn sent them to the 

 Marine and Fishery Department. 



Regarding game, compared with other yeaTs not so many seizures were 

 made. Seven carcasses of deer were seized and placed in cold storage (ship- 

 ped from Province of Quebec), but were allowed to proceed to destination 

 upon Dominion Express Co. furnishing afiidavits and paying cold storage 

 and other expenses. He is sorry to say that partridge is almost nil. What 

 with the late, cold spring, very little snow in the winter, and the terribly heavy 

 slaughter in past years, by both (so-called) sportsmen and the market hunter, 

 it is almost surprising that there are any birds left. Hunters thought noth- 

 ing of killing hundreds of birds in a single fall. To-day, or rather this past 

 fall, the largest bag he heard of was 10 birds, and the gentleman told him 

 he must have walked 20 miles for them. Sportsmen here favor closing the 

 season for killing partridge for two or three years, and he says if this is not 

 done, in a couple of years partridge will be a thing of the past. He spent 

 two days at his old favorite place, 60 miles from Ottawa, where he has passed 

 a couple of days nearly every fall for the past 30 years. He walked at least 

 20 miles and came home without a bird. A few years ago there were thous- 

 ands of birds. 



According to the amount of deer shipped from both Ontario and Quebec, 

 and the reports of hunters, these game animals are more than holding their 

 own. All the hunters he met with were very well satisfied, in fact a great 

 many of them only killed bucks. 



There is the same cry about wolves. There is no doubt that wolves do 

 destroy deer, but in the last five years the two-legged wolves have got lessons 

 in fines that he believes has done more good than the bounty on the four- 

 legged fellows. 



Early in December a deer was killed within two miles of his house. 

 This was about 2.80 p.m. Before 6 p.m. he had been notified by 'phone by 

 no less than four parties. 



Wild ducks are fairly plentiful, some very good bags being made. 

 Plover were scarce. The usual flight did not come that way.. 



Overseer John McGuire, Jones Falls, reports that the season of 1907, 

 was a very successful one in his district. The hotel keepers, boarding house 

 keepers, livery men, guides, and also the farmers who get a lot of money out 

 of the tourist business, all report that their profits far exceeded any previous 

 year. The anglers or tourists were all as a rule well satisfied with the fish- 

 ing. The number of those may be imas'ined by the fact that he collected 

 for anglers' non-resident permits alone at Jones Falls and Chaffeys Locks, 

 the sum of |440. He says he found the non-resident anglers, who were 

 mostly Americans, perfectly satisfied to pay the sum of $2 for a permit to 

 fish, some saying they would willingly pay $5 if we would keep out the nets 

 and protect the fish, and he thinks there is more money for the Canadian 



