1911 GAME AND FISHERIES. 55 



worth of fur. Owners paid $250 to settle. May 13, box of fish, sold for $7. May 

 17, 1 bag of fur. May 24, 25 muskrat skins. May 27, parcel of muskrat skins. 

 June 1, box of undersized fish. June 17, box of fish, sold for $3.50. 



Four prosecutions for using nets without a license took place. Offenders paid 

 fine of $5 and costs each. 



Six nets were seized and destroyed. About $150 has been collected for licenses, 

 game dealers, cold storage, etc. 



He does not approve of the change in the season for ducks. The Quebec 

 (.Tovernment changed their season from September 15th to September 1st, so that 

 the law would be the same in both Provinces. ISTow the Ontario Government have 

 made a change from September 1st to September 15th, but allow plover and snipe 

 to be shot on September 1st. He thinks this is a very bad move. If ducks are 

 not to be shot till September 15th, then close the season for plover and snipe, too, 

 make them uniform. But in that district they would rather that ducks, plover and 

 snipe, also woodcock, should open on September 1st. He is not in favour of a 

 change in the close season for deer. 



Quite recently he seized two large trunks of partridge. The orphans in Ottawa 

 and Belleville have been living high, and he is now on the hunt for the owner, and 

 thinks he will get him; 600 birds at $5 each will be a pill for him to swallow. 

 He will get all that is coming to him, if it is the party he thinks, for this is not 

 the first time he has shipped, bought and sold. He caught him before, and expects 

 to again. 



Overseer William Major, of Woodlawn reports that the past ten months have 

 been very quiet, and the law was well observed in his district. There was no 

 Sunday shooting. The fishing has not been very good during the summer season. 

 Pike, suckers and bullheads are most plentiful, but pickerel and bass are scarce 

 in those waters. 



Ducks are very plentiful, also geese. Partridge are scarce. Muskrats are 

 plentiful. No houses were cut open that he could see in his district. He has 

 made no seizures the past year. 



Overseer John McGnire, of Jones Falls, reports that he was not in his own 

 district during the month of November, 1909, as, by order of the Department he 

 was in charge of the Big Rideau Lake for the purpose of protecting the salmon and 

 whitefish during the month, which is the close season for those two species of fish. 

 He was furnished with a first-class man as assistant, and they took up their abode 

 on an island for the whole of November, sheltered by a canvas tent 10 x 12 feet. 

 They were furnished with two good row-boats, and the patrol motor boat "Mer- 

 maid " was also well provided with boats and every other thing necessary, and 

 being possessed of a will and determination to do their duty, they put up a patrol 

 of the lake, using the launch in the day time and the rowboats at night whenever 

 the weather would permit, and he thinks they discouraged and frightened the old 

 time poachers, about whom so much has been said in the past, for during the whole 

 month no irregularities or violations of the law came under their notice. He 

 thinks that the month of November was the first November in a generation without a 

 seizure of nets and a conviction for an infraction of the law. "He returned to 

 Jones Falls on the 2nd of December, and took charge of his own district again. 

 There was very little doing in December, except looking after the licensed fishermen. 

 There is not much poaching in his district. He paid some visits to back lakes, but 

 discovered no violations. On the 28th January he went to Temperance Lake in the 

 Township of Young in Leeds County, to investigate a complaint to the effect that 



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