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The same system should be adopted with regard to resident permits. As the 

 residents of Nepigon have no other waters wherein to fish without going consider- 

 able distance from home, and would on several occasions during the season, like to 

 spend part of a day, or a day, fishing the Nepigon, whereas they cannot spare the 

 time to take more than one day off at a time, and under the present system they 

 would have to pay $5.00 for permit for one day's fishing, and possibly before they 

 •could take another day's fishing their permit for two weeks would have expired. 



These permits should also, he thinks, be issuable for from one to seven days 

 at so much per day. 



When Lake ISTepigon becomes in demand as a tourist resort he would point 

 out the fact that the present regulations do not permit of issuing angling permits 

 for a longer period than four weeks, and he would recommend that permits for 

 Lake Nepigon be issuable for three months to enable tourists making a permanent 

 •camp or having a summer cottage and spending all summer thereat. This he 

 thinks is necessary to make a permanent resort of the Nepigon waters. 



Many cariboo, moose and red deer have been seen during the season. Moose 

 and red deer, particularly, are becoming very numerous. 



Partridges also have increased in numbers greatly during the past two or 

 three years. 



Lake Superior. 



Overseer A. Calbecl', of Sault Ste. Marie, reports that during the month of 

 "Kovember, 1909, he patrolled the waters of the north s;hore of Lake Superior 

 between Sault Ste. Marie and Otter Head — 'by the shore line a distance of 150 

 miles, in the sail and gasioline boat " Grlen Campbell." At Garrett's Harbor he 

 •seized two tugs with nets and fish, and brought same to Sault Ste. Marie, when the 

 same was disposed of by the Department ; and at the Lizard Islands he found that 

 iihere had been illegal fishing in those waters which have been set apart by the 

 Department in which no fishing is allowed. This illegal work was done a'bout the 

 first of October before the patrol boat was put on. This patrol boat prevented a 

 great amount of illegal fishing by scoop nets in the mouths of the Montreal and 

 other rivers. During the month of December, on account of the ice forming, there 

 was very little fishing done. 



In January he proceeded to T'heasalon, and seized a quantity of nets and fish 

 from several fishermen there who were fishing vtdthout a license; this case was 

 •settled by Game and Fishery Warden Hunter. He also visited Goulais Bay dur- 

 ing the same month, and stopped the fishing there until the fishermen received 

 their license. 



There were 4 tug licenses, 1 gasoline launch, and 31 sailboat licenses issued 

 this season; 24 of those boat licenses have been issued between Sault Ste. Marie 

 and Batchewana, and as the town of Sault Ste. Marie is depending on these waters 

 for their fish supply he would strongly recommend that this number be not 

 increased. An effort was made this fall by a party to have the Board of Trade 

 there recommend the granting of a tug license in those waters. If this was done 

 it would practically deplete those waters in two seasons, as the ohief catch is now 

 during the winter months and the early spring. During the summer months 

 many of the fishermen cease fishing in those waters and move up the lake, and he 

 wx>uld strongly recom^mend that the licensees be compelled to fish in the waters in 

 "wfeicih the licenses were first issued, and not be allowed to move on to grounds 

 occupied by other fishermen. During the months of July, August and September 



