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office a little over a year ago, he finds that the laws have heen well kept, consider- 

 ing the number of lakes in that district, and that the number of tourists have 

 been larger than in previous years. He sold sixteen permits this year, and believes 

 the laws were observed by those parties. He thinks the Department has taken a 

 step in the right direction towards getting the ling out of Wolf Lake, Green Bay 

 and Bob's Lake, where they are so numerous, and towards having bass put in 

 Wolf Lake. But he states that there is plenty of bass in Canoe Lake, Thirteen 

 Island Lake and White Lake, also Thirty Island Lake, in which there were some 

 parties fishing last summer who report that the fish were a good size. He thinks 

 the salmon season should be changed from October 15th to jSTovember 15th, as 

 the run is nearly over before the close season comes on. The close seasons in that 

 district have been well observed, and he had only one occasion to enforce the laws 

 during the last year, and that was for catching salmon on Devil Lake with nets. 

 Deer have been very scarce in his district for years back, but he thinks that 

 in a very few years there will be a good many, as all the hunters go away to other 

 parts, and he knows of only one or two deer having been shot this last three or 

 four years. Partridges are quite plentiful now in that section, owing, he thinks, 

 to their protection for years. Ducks are quite numerous, too, but are very wild. 

 Muskrats are quite plentiful, and the laws are well kept. Mink are very scarce, 

 and hard to be caught. Foxes are numerous, and there are a number shot every 

 year. They are very destructive on fowl, especially on turkeys. 



Overseer W. L. Briscoe, of Kill aloe, reports that he has kept a close watch 

 in his division, and found a good many less infringements of the game and fishery 

 laws than last year. The most trouble he had was with the Indians, as there are 

 a number of them who do not obey the laws. He has also visited the different 

 lakes in his division, and found that they had quit spearing, as there are no 

 cinders to be found around the lake shores. He also found that the fish in Golden 

 Lake are very scarce, as the trout seem to have left these waters, and there is 

 nothing but pike and suckers. Tlie grey trout and whitefish are getting to be 

 numerous in Round Lake, and are of a large species. He has issued in all four- 

 teen fishing licenses, but most of the parties have not set any nets yet, and those 

 who have set them have set them only for pike and suckers. He destroyed sev- 

 eral nets in Golden Lake, but did not find the owners. 



Partridge are very numerous in his district, also deer and beaver. 



Overseer D. E. Burns, of FemhroTce, reports that the Game and Fisheries 

 Act has been well observed this season in his district. He recommended eight 

 fishing licenses for coarse fish, but only a small number of fish were taken, as the 

 parties were fishing merely for their own use. Fish are not increasing as they 

 should, and he cannot account for this, unless it is the large quantity of suckers 

 that frequent the waters and destroy the spawn of other fish. The principal fish 

 that frequent the waters in his district are bass, maskinonge, sturgeon, catfish, 

 suckers and pike. He did not issue any angling permits this season, as there 

 were no non-residents camping there. 



There has been a new fishway put in the dam on the Muskrat River in the 

 town of Pembroke. 



There were some parties hunting partridge on Sunday up in the township of 

 Fraser, but he failed to find out who they were. He has been informed by citi- 

 zens of that locality that Sunday partridge hunting has ceased since his visit to 

 that part of the country. The partridge are getting more plentiful under the 

 wise protection now afforded them, which he thinks should be continued for a 



