40 THE EEPORT UPON No. 13 



of the shooting. The woodcock was quite plentiful along the Grand River, but 

 they had all left before the sports could legally shoot them, and they think the 

 season should open on the 1st of October, to give them a chance. 



Lake Ontario and Bay of Quinte. 



Overseer Angus Brishin^ of Picton, reports that he has in his division forty-one 

 gill net fishermen, six fishing hoop nets, and four night lines, and he has no fault 

 to find with the manner in which they have observed the law. There has been a 

 great deal of windy weather this season at tlie M^ain Dncks, which prevented the 

 usual catch of fish, but the fishermen report a very good season. He has made 

 four trips to Main Ducks this reason, and at one time had to stay five days on ac- 

 count of a wind storm. He would here suggest that fishermen be allowed more 

 horse power in their boats when they have such storms to contend with. He has 

 eleven horse power in his boat, and finds it hard to make- any headway, and he does 

 not know what he would do if he had just eight horse power, as they have, and 

 a load of wet nets and fish. He has known them to have to throw part of their load 

 of fish overboard to reach shore. He has gone over 1200 miles this season. There 

 is very little angling done in this district, and he sold only four permits. 



Overseer D. Conger, of West Lake^ reports that the catch of whitefish and 

 salmon has not been as good as last year on account of bad weather in the spring 

 of the year. As the fishermen only fish about three months in the year in his 

 division and that in the spring. He has been over his territory on different oc- 

 casions and he is satisfied that the licensed fishermen observed the laws. Angling 

 has been good in West and East Lake. He seized about six or seven hundred yards 

 of gill nets in Weft and East Lake, but mostly in East Lake, but hard case to 

 find out the owners of the nets, because they do all of their illegal fishing at night. 



In regard to game, there was any amount of Ducks in East and West Lake 

 in the spring, and fall of the year. Muskrat was plentiful, trappers got as high 

 as one dollar apiece for their skins. He had three parties fined for trapping in 

 muskrat houses last March. Partridge are increasing, and also black squirrels. 

 The Game Laws have been fairly well observed. 



Overseer P. W. Dafoe, of Napanee, reports that the catch of fish of all kinds 

 in these waters seems nearly the same as last year. The price is high, and the 

 fish largely go to foreign markets. The spring of 1910 opened so early that the 

 run of pickerel was practically over before the close season began. The people 

 living at Lime Lake, in his division are asking to have fome whitefish put in that 

 lake, saying it is just the home for whitefish, being deep and springy. He thinks 

 it would be well to have a hatchery on the Bay of Quinte. 



Ee Game. — Deer, froni reports coming in, are not so plentiful. He thinks 

 the wolves have more to do in thinning out their numbers than the hunters. There 

 are not so many going out to hunt, as in former years. Perhaps the one-deer law 

 has something to do in keeping them at home. Partridges are very plentiful. 

 Ducks hold their own in point of numbers. Muskrats are numerous, judging 

 from the hou?es they are puting up. Mink and black squirrels are holding their 

 own in numbers. A small fee for trapping licenses he thinks, would work well. 

 iln his division during the year now closing, five hoop nets have been seized, two 

 for fishing without having tags with owners name on, as required by law, and 

 three in closed season. ' He thinks this is the whole of the law breaking in his 

 division, but in other waters he has alone, and also with help, seized some twenty 

 nets for illegal fishing. 



