DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES 



No. 9 



The total amount of this revenue exceeds by $139,200.25 the amount collected 

 during the period of the last fiscal year reported upon, i.e., ending October 31st, 

 1934, and represents an increase of more than twenty-five per cent. By far the 

 greater proportion of this additional revenue resulted from the increased issue of 

 non-resident licenses, an increase amounting to practically $100,000.00, — more than 

 $72,000.00 from the sale of additional non-resident angling licenses, and more 

 than $27,0'00.00, from the sale of additional non-resident hunting licenses. Resi- 

 dent hunting licenses, which this year for the first time included licenses to use 

 dogs to hunt deer, netted an additional $22,500.00, while revenue from fines and 

 sales of confiscated articles, resulting from the operations of the enforcement ser- 

 vice, also increased by more than $7,800.00. 



The total expenditures of the Department for this financial year, including both 

 ordinary and capital, amounted to $451,041.91, and it will be noted that our opera- 

 tions showed a surplus of revenue over expenditures totalling $232,896.81. Com- 

 pared with the previous twelve-month period reported upon, expenditures show a 

 decrease of somewhat in excess of $105,000.00, and while the figures quoted are an 

 evidence of the considerably improved financial position of the Department, such a 

 desirable condition has been attained not through any curtailment of necessary ser- 

 vices or interference with departmental activities, but rather because of close and 

 careful scrutiny and the resulting elimination of any unnecessary items of 

 expenditure. 



STATISTICS 



Various tables of statistics are included as appendices to this report. They 

 contain in detail considerable information with reference to the output of the fish 

 hatcheries and rearing stations maintained and operated by the Department under 

 the Fish Culture Branch, as well as information as to the distribution of the product 

 of these hatcheries and rearing stations and the waters re-stocked therewith. 

 Tables are also provided giving information with reference to the commercial fish- 

 eries of the Province, while interspersed throughout the actual report are statis- 

 tical facts which refer to other branches of departmental activity, assembled, com- 

 piled and included herein for information, and all of which may be considered to 

 be of value and interest. 



GAME 



The following table gives details as to the numbers of the various hunting 

 licenses, both resident and non-resident, issued during the year, as compared with 

 similar information for the two preceding years, and which figures it will be ob- 

 served indicate increases in practically all instances, and substantiate the comments 

 made earlier in this report concerning the improvement in our revenue collections: — 



1933 



1934 



1935-36 



Resident Moose 



Resident Deer 



Resident Camp (Deer) . . 



Resident Farmers' (Deer) 



Resident Gun 



Non-resident small game 



Non-resident deer 



Non-resident "General" . . 



673 

 12,756 



165 



5,113 



97,561 



318 

 634 



512 



12,89*0 



175 



4,902 



76,210 



489 



475 

 457 



496 



14,779 



258 



5,221 



85,884 



686 

 652 

 680 



We shall now endeavour to summarize conditions as they apply to our game 

 life, animal and bird, — as compiled from reports submitted by the oflBcers of the 

 departmental field service stationed in various sections of the Province: — 



