44 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 



GENERAL — 



Guides' Licenses 37D.00 



Fines 3,761.00 



Sales — Confiscated Articles, etc 3,696.84 



Rent » 1,635. St) 



Commission 849.87 



Miscellaneous •• -• 811.29 



11,124.50 



$258,348.04 



Quite naturally, the game division brought in by far the greater percentage of 

 this revenue, — fishing, and more particularly angling, by reason of the weather con- 

 ditions which prevail during this period being very extensively curtailed. It will be 

 of interest to state that this revenue exceeded the amount which it was estimated 

 would be collected. 



The exercise of judicious supervision over expenditures was very essential; and 

 while the total in this respect amounted only to $168,202.67, it is submitted that 

 the various results achieved were creditable, and that the proportionately reduced ex- 

 penditures did not noticeably interfere with the proper performance of Departmental 

 activities or the provision of necessary services. . . : 



GAME 



In all, some 18,767 licenses to hunt big game, i.e. deer and moose, were issued 

 under the following divisions: — 



Resident licenses to hunt deer 17,584 



Resident licenses to hunt moose 399 



Non-resident general licenses 397 



Non-resident deer licenses 387 



In addition we also issued some 317 non-resident licenses to hunt small game 

 animals and birds. 



The foregoing figures are an indication that the attractions which the game of 

 this Province affords to the interested sportsman and hunter have a prominent place 

 in our scheme. 



A limited distribution of game birds was undertaken during this period, — 417 

 English ring-necked pheasants and 597 Hungarian Partridge according to De- 

 partmental records being liberated in different sections of the Province in which 

 suitable environment for these desirable species of game birds was available. 



In the matter of Crown Game Preserves, while much preliminary work was done 

 in connection with suitable areas which have been subsequently established as Game 

 Preserves, in only one case, that of the Pond Mills Crown Game Preserve, in the 

 County of Middlesex, was final action provided, and this was the only Crown Game 

 Preserve established during the period under review. 



FUR 



Active trapping operations were, of course, carried on during this period, though 

 it would include but a very short portion of the open season for the taking of 

 muskrat, one of the principal mainstays of our trapping industry. 



The following table will show the number of pelts of various fur-bearing ani- 

 mals taken by trapping and sold to licensed fur buyers, as well as the numbers ex- 

 ported from the Province and dressed within the Province respectively. 



