10 THE REPORT UPON No. 32 



The "I'll See" and the "Eva Bell," which had outlived their usefulness, 

 were disposed of, and the "Naiad," a much more suitable boat, was secured. 

 She was kept on the Rideau waters, from Kingston to Smith's Falls in par- 

 ticular, and sometimes as far as Ottawa, until the 15th October, when the 

 crew was changed, and she then patrolled the waters between Kingston and 

 Belleville. Her presence on the Bay of Quinte during the spawning season 

 broke up the illegal fishing which had been regularly carried on for years. 

 This boat during the summer patrolled the Rideau waters under direct 

 instructions each week from the Department, and no services in past years 

 could be compared with those which she rendered last year. 



The overseers at Kingston and Gananoque were provided with launches 

 which gave satisfactory service. The overseer at Inner Long Point Bay 

 was also provided with a launch, which was very needful. The usefulness 

 of these launches to offiecrs is plainly shown by the one furnished to our 

 overseer at Hamilton. The results obtained from this boat proved conclu- 

 sively how handicapped an overseer is if he has not the means at his disposal 

 to go upon the water when necessity requires. 



There is one locality in particular that I feel it my duty to point out 

 to you that needs a patrol service similar to that of the Rideau waters, viz., 

 Lake Simcoe, Couchiching, and the Kawartha Lakes, which now, owing to 

 the Trent Canal, can be patrolled by one boat. I feel satisfied that should 

 you authorize this, the results would be most gratifying to you and the 

 Department. Overseers on these waters in the main give good service, but 

 are unable to cope with the situation when the summer season with its 

 thousands of tourists is in full swing. This boat would be the means also 

 of preventing to a considerable extent the early duck shooting in the autumn, 

 and also the illegal setting of nets in Lake Simcoe during the spawnino: sea- 

 son in October. 



Special Overseers. 



Several of these were appointed for a number of months during last sum- 

 mer to inspect every shipment of fish, and to see that none, excepting those 

 legally caught, were being shipped. They were supplied with tags to attach 

 to each box inspected, which authorized them to be sent through to their 

 destination without any further examination. This experiment was one of 

 the most successful that has ever been tried by the Department, and pre- 

 vented to an enormous extent the exporting of undersized whitefish and 

 salmon trout. These special overseeers were also required to keep an account 

 of all the fish which were shipped from these different fishing stations, and 

 forms were provided them to send in at the end of each week to the Depart- 

 ment statistics of the fish that were shippped, and which gave the Depart- 

 ment more reliable reports regarding the catch of fish than they ever obtained 

 before. 



As in the past, the Department received all possible assistance from the 

 press, railroad and express companies during the year. Railroad and express 

 companies now realize the value of the tourist and hunters' traffic. As a rule 

 inspectors, wardens in charge of districts, overseers and deputy game wardens, 

 have performed their respective duties with credit to the Department and 

 themselves. Fish and game have a value far in excess of amount realized 

 from the sale thereof. Anything that has a tendency to improve the people 

 morally and physically has a value beyond computation. The attraction of 

 game and fish induces residents of cities and towns to spend their vacations 

 in the enjoyable and health giving districts with which the Province is so 



