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Partridge and ducks are scarce there, and also the fur bearing animals. 

 There have been some deer seen around this season. 



The laws in regard to game were strictly observed. 



Overseer William Spence, of Athens, reports that there was an increase 

 in the catch of salmon over previous years. Black bass were better, but were 

 very small. The large-mouthed bass were very plentiful. 



The fishery laws were well observed. There were a few cases of illegal 

 fishing with nets. He got one gill net and two night lines. He kept up 

 almost a constant patrol of the waters of his district during the summer, the 

 effect being that there was very little illegal fishing done. 



Partridge and ducks were more plentiful than previous years. 



Overseer James S. Stewart, of Lanark, reports that the past year has 

 not been marked by anj special feature. 



The Game and Fishery laws have been fairly well observed, and the 

 catch of fish about normal. 



The open season for fur bearing animals was up to the average, about 

 1,800 muskrats having been taken. 



Overseer J. W. Taudvin, of Kingston, reports that during the months 

 of June, July and part of August the angling was better in his district than 

 it had been for twenty years. All kinds of fish were plentiful, especially 

 bass. The fishing was not so good during the latter part of August and the 

 month of September, and very little was done, owing chiefly to rough 

 weather, fogs and smoke. 



He would recommend the doing away with family licenses, and charg- 

 ing |2 per rod for non-residents who are domiciled in the Province in the 

 summer, and |5 per rod or more for those who return to their own homes 

 or hotels, etc., outside of the Province. 



He would also recommend charging non-residents for fishing in the St. 

 Lawrence River between Galoups Rapids (4 miles below Prescott) and King- 

 ston the same fee as elsewhere. There is excellent bass fishing at the head 

 of Galoups Rapids. 



Overseer James Townsend, of Long Point, reports the past season to 

 have been a very satisfactory one. More tourists are visiting tnose waters 

 every year. He sold three times the number of permits that he sold the year 

 previous, and the prospects for the coming season are still better. Bass fish- 

 ing was never better in Gananoque Lake. He would approve of keeping in 

 hoop nets to rid the waters of coarse fish, and would refer for an example to 

 the above mentioned lake, which has been fished continuously for years, and 

 is the best bass fishing ground in his division. He does not approve of gill 

 nets, as thej are destructive of game fish. He thinks the |2 angling permits 

 are all right. 



He says that as his district is about twenty-five miles in length, besides 

 its tributaries, it is almost impossible to watch it with a row-boat. Quite 

 a few tourists got away from him last season, as a number of them come for 

 only two or three days' fishing. 



Overseer H. E. Wariman, of Portsmxmth, reports that the catch of 

 bass in his division was up to the average, there being some very large ones 

 caught this year. The Americans who got permits for angling were well 

 satisfied. Fishermen in Ward's Bay, a portion of Cataraqui Creek border- 

 ing on Lake Ontario, report a large increase of carp and dogfish — 900 dog- 

 fish and 4,522 lbs. of carp. The carp have just appeared in the last two or 

 three years. 



