4 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1946) 



NON-RESIDENT ANGLING LICENSES 



1943-44 1944-45 



Individual (Seasonal) 27,314 36,907 



Individual (Three-Day) 27,622 32,242 



Family 12,593 18,859 



Manitoba Residents 699 817 



Boys' Camp 13 18 



NON-RESIDENT HUNTING LICENSES 



1943-44 1944-45 



Small Game 1,605 1,949 



Deer 1,782 2,385 



General 504 653 



Bear (Spring Season) 157 181 



RESIDENT HUNTING LICENSES 



1943-44 1944-45 



Deer 31,067 31,470 



Deer (Camp) 371 398 



Deer (Farmers') 6,858 6,786 



Moose 854 875 



Gun 87,504 92,847 



During the year expenditures to a total of $638,765.27 were made by the 

 Department, and it should be noted that these were all ordinary expenditures. There 

 was no expenditure on capital account. The following statement is a resume of the 

 details of this expenditure: — 



EXPENDITURE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31st, 1945 



ORDINARY — 



Main Office $ 55,819.80 



General 45,828.00 



Enforcement 238,596.35 



Game Animals and Birds 12,095.04 



Macdiarmid 3,482.96 



Biological and Fish Culture 222,759.54 



Grants 5,400.00 



Wolf Bounty 45,993.58 



Bear Bounty 8,790.00 



Total , $638,765.27 



As compared with the previous year this total represents an increase in 

 ordinary expenditure of approximately $68,000.00, the increase being spread over 

 the various activities indicated in the foregoing table, and $51,000.00 of this increase 

 was absorbed by the expenditures made in connection with two branches of the 

 Service, viz: Enforcement and Biological and Fish Culture. 



The allocation of grants followed the distribution which has been in effect 

 for the past few years, details of which are as follows: $2,500.00 to the Ontario 

 Fur Breeders' Association, Inc., to encourage the efforts of this Association to 

 improve the practice followed by those engaged in the fur farming industry in the 

 Province; $500.00 to Professor W. J. K. Harkness in connection with his research 



