DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES 



No. 9 



Expenditures, both capital and ordinary, amounted to a total of $575,437.79, 

 which left an operating surplus for the year of $339,037.45 as shown in a previous 

 statistical table. Some of the principal items of expenditure which go to make 

 up this total include the sum of $226,716.29 necessary to maintain the staff of 

 enforcement officers operating under this Department, and some $186,911.00 in 

 connection with the propagation and distribution of fish by the Fish Hatchery 

 Service of the Biological and Fish Culture Branch. Expenditures in connection 

 with the payment of Wolf Bounties totalled the sum of $25,435.24, while grants to 

 assist in the work of research conducted by various Associations and individuals 

 amounted to $8,900.00. The sum of $19,973.00 was expended for game birds and 

 animals, principally in connection with the propagation, purchase and distribution 

 of pheasants. For the purchase of and repairs to boats, boathouses and vehicles 

 it was necessary to expend in all a total of $12,898.31. while a total capital expenditure 

 of $16,902.91 was made to take care of additional fish culture ponds and dams, and 

 bird farm buildings, the greater proportion of this amount being spent on improve- 

 ments at the Codrington Bird Farm. Excluding the aforementioned capital expenditure 

 the net ordinary expenditure therefore totalled $558,534.88. 



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The comparative table next following details the various resident and non- 

 resident hunting licenses which were issued during the period under review, as 

 well as similar statistics for the preceding three years. While there was a noticeable 

 reduction in the sale of non-resident general hunting licenses this may be attributed 

 to the fact that following the legislative action provided at the 1938 Session there 

 was no open season for moose in certain areas easily accessible to non-resident 

 visitors, that is the southeastern and southwestern portions of Northern Ontario, 

 but this decrease to a large extent was nullified by the increase in the number 

 of non-resident deer licenses which were issued. Reference has previously 

 been made to the greater number of resident deer and gun licenses which were 

 issued this year. 



Conservation and co-operation loom large on the educational horizon of the 

 sportsman. The two are being emphasized as the key to a fuller enjoyment of 

 that wonderful heritage, — our wild-life resources, — with which nature has so bounti- 

 fully blessed us. Conservation in its broadest sense and as applied to wild life 

 is the effort to keep pace with modern conditions; to profit from past experiences 

 resulting from misuse, and through wise management maintain an adequate supply 

 for present and future needs; to provide proper control and protection based on 

 knowledge and experience; to restore natural conditions wherever possible and to 

 ensure development through natural and artificial propagation. It is a general 

 programme so obviously essential to good management that it should appeal to 

 everyone interested in the safeguarding of a valuable asset. 



