DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941) 



source. The sale of non-resident angling licenses resulted in the collection of the 

 total sum of $391,504.00, an increase of more than $52,000.00 as compared with 

 the figure from the same source in 19 38-39. 



Total expenditures for the year, including both ordinary and capital, amounted 

 in all to a sum of $568,198.55, showing an operating surplus of $447,152.27 for 

 the period under review. Capital expenditures totalled $10,095.43, of which amount 

 $3,933.47 was spent on improvements at the Departmental bird farms located at 

 Normandale and Codrington, while the balance of $6,161.96 was expended on various 

 fish hatchery properties. The principal items of ordinary expenditure were $219,- 

 211.11 on the maintenance of the staff of regular and seasonal officers engaged in 

 the work of providing enforcement of provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act and 

 additional patrols during the fish spawning periods; and the sum of $211,142.44 

 for the operation of the various fish hatcheries and rearing stations maintained by 

 the Department in connection with the propagation and distribution of fish by the 

 Fish Culture Branch, the details of this service being enumerated further along in 

 this report. Expenditures additional to the two principal items to which reference 

 has just been made include $27,399.50 spent in connection with the purchase and 

 distribution of game birds and animals for re-stocking purposes, $21,506.20 of this 

 total being for the purchase of some 26,500 live pheasants, which were liberated 

 principally in the various Townships in southwestern Ontario counties established as 

 Regular Game Preserve Areas; expenses under the Wolf Bounty Act were $25,- 

 058.12, actual bounty payments being in all $24,905.00; while special grants paid by 

 the Department in accordance with appropriations provided by the Legislature 

 amounted to $7,400.00, details of which are as follows: $2,000.00 expended under 

 the supervision of Professor W. J. K. Harkness in connection with biological sur- 

 veys and research work in fisheries, particularly on waters in Algonquin Provincial 

 Park; $2,500.00 to the Ontario Fur Farmers' Association to assist the services of 

 this organization in the development of the fur farming industry throughout the 

 Province; $1,000.00 to the Ontario Federation of Anglers to be expended in con- 

 nection with their educational campaign to secure more improved co-operation 

 along the lines of closer observance of provisions of the Fisheries Regulations; while 

 the balance of $1,900.00 was allotted to Mr. Jack Miner, Mr. Thomas N. Jones, and 

 Miss Edith L. Marsh to encourage these interested naturalists in their work of bird 

 protection on the sanctuaries maintained by them in the Counties of Essex, Elgin 

 and Grey respectively. 



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The following table shows comparative details of the various hunting licenses, 

 both resident and non-resident, which were issued during the seasons which prevail- 

 ed, together with similar information for preceding years, and from which it will 

 be observed that there was but little change in the numbers of such licenses which 

 were disposed of during the year reported upon as compared with the numbers sold 

 in the previous year: 



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