The Geraldton District again carried out banding operations at Arm Lake 

 during 1962. They were successful in banding 136 ducks as follows: 



Black 70 



Mallard 41 



Goldeneye 4 



Baldpates 9 



Lesser Scaup 7 



Greenwinged Teal 5 



Since 1956, the Gogama District has carried out a waterfowl banding pro- 

 ject at Halliday Lake for approximately 24 days in mid-August and early 

 September. They have banded as follows: 



1956 462 



1957 206 



1958 285 



1959 198 



1960 163 



1961 112 



1962 263 



The banding was mainly of black ducks but consisted of the following: 



Black ducks 246 



Mallard 15 



Goldeneye 2 



In addition, the Cochrane and Fort Frances Districts co-operated with the 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in an attempt to band black ducks in these districts. 

 The black duck concentrations were not sufficient in the Fort Frances District and 

 the agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service moved to Lillabelle Lake at 

 Cochrane where he banded large numbers of black ducks and established a most 

 satisfactory banding station there which now can be carried on by the District 

 staff, with or without the assistance of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



Public Hunting Areas, 1962 



During 1962, three kinds of areas were operated for public hunting on a 

 controlled basis where fees were charged for hunting on the specified area. There 

 were two controlled waterfowl hunting units operating at Darlington Provincial 

 Park and on Crown Lands adjacent to Long Point Provincial Park. In addition, 

 three areas of marsh in Rondeau, Holiday Beach and Presqu'ile Provincial Parks 

 were used again for duck hunting, where hunters paid an annual fee of $4.00 

 for waterfowl hunting privileges. 



All of the area of Sibbald's Point Park and Darlington Park were used for 

 controlled pheasant shooting as well as a large area in Presqu'ile Park. In each 

 of these latter three areas between 250 and 350 acres of land were available for 

 pheasant hunting. In previous years, only a small portion of the Park was set 

 aside for this purpose. 



Table No. 1 is a summary of the use of the Waterfowl Hunting Units in 



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