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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941) 



GENERAL 



TOURIST OUTFITTERS: 



The licensing of camps in Northern Ontario, in the area provided by the Game 

 and Fisheries Act was continued. The demand for accommodation encouraged some 

 expansion. Sixty-five permits were issued authorizing the establishment of new camps. 

 Six hundred and forty-two camps were licensed — a net increase of twelve per cent. 



District 



Licenses 



Non-Resident Resident 



Total 



Algoma . . . . 

 Cochrane . . . 



Kenora 



Manitoulin . 

 Nipissing . . . 

 Parry Sound 

 Patricia . . . . 

 Rainy River 

 Renfrew . . . . 

 Sudbury . . . . 

 Temiskaming 

 Thunder Bay 



Total 



22 

 3 

 9 

 6 



5 



3 



3 



60 



83 



5 



123 



52 



90 



107 



2 



22 



10 



59 



3 



26 



582 



92 



5 



145 



55 



99 



113 



2 



27 



10 



62 



3 



29 



642 



DEPARTMENTAL BULLETIN:— 



Conservation, as applied to wildlife, depends for its success upon public ap- 

 preciation of wildlife values and an understanding of the necessity for co-operation 

 with the Department in the many phases of its activities designed to ensure that these 

 values will not be impaired. As a means of developing and encouraging both of these 

 factors, the Department prepares and publishes a Bulletin covering all aspects of the 

 conservation programme. It deals with the work of propagation and restoration and 

 the many problems incidental to the protection and development of wildlife. It is 

 intended to be educational as well as informative and contains life history sketches of 

 the more important species of fish and game, as well as editorials emphasizing the 

 value of conservation and the part the public is expected to play in supporting the 

 work of the Department. It is non-technical in language and as a consequence has a 

 wider public appeal. During the year it appeared at regular bi-monthly intervals with 

 a circulation of over 1600 per issue which included the newspapers of the Province 

 and an extensive mailing list of sportsmen and other individuals. As the material 

 published in the Bulletin is frequently quoted in the press its sphere of influence 

 extends beyond the limits of its mailing list. 



GAME AND FISHERIES ACT: — 



The Game and Fisheries Laws are an important part of the general programme 

 of conservation. They are intended not only to regulate supply and demand, but also 

 to ensure that natural reproductive periods will not be interfered with. Where closed 

 seasons are in effect there is a sound biological or practical reason for same, and 

 where open seasons are restricted it is because the particular species involved will not 

 stand any excessive take over a lengthy period. Limits of catch and size where such 

 are involved, are regulatory measures intended to control by providing for a reason- 

 ably equitable distribution of the available resources. A moment's thought will con- 

 vince even the most indifferent that these regulations are of primary importance In 

 the interest of the sportsman himself and the administration of the resources. That 



