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boat, spear, etc., and on one of the party a fine was imposed of $10 and 

 costs. He also had a person at Fitzroy Harbor before the magistrate for 

 spearing. He was also fined $10 and costs. He says there seems to be a 

 tendency to observe the fishery laws more and more every year, and the 

 general public are more in favor of protection. As Game Warden, he 

 seized some 3,000 illegally shipped partridges, and fines were imposed in 

 some cases; also some 1^00 beaver skins, 500 muskrat skins, and otter skins 

 have been seized, and fines collected to the extent of about $500. Fishing 

 (angling) at times was good, but the rivers and streams seem to be teeming 

 with small minnows, consequently, fish have plenty of food, and it is only 

 occasionally that bass and pickerel are ravenous. He believes there are 

 lots of fish, but they will not bite. Fly fishing was grood for a short time. 

 On the whole he considers the laws have been very well observed. 



Overseer McCall, Vittoria, Lake Erie, reports a great falling off in 

 the quantity of whitefish taken, which he attributes to the few pound nets 

 now being fished off the County of Norfolk, and to the tug gill net fisher- 

 men not fishing for whitefish. The herring fishing during the months of 

 September, October and November, he reports, to have been good; also at 

 Port Dover pickerel were taken in large quantities. On the fishing grounds 

 west of Long Point there seem to have been no blues, herring being on un- 

 til the close of the season. The fishing in his district up to August was the 

 poorest ever known, and from then on to the close of the season was the best 

 in some years. 



The Inner Long Point seine men who fished during the whole season 

 did well, but the great majority do not fish after duck shooting starts. 



There were large numbers of Americans visiting Port Rowan in the bass 

 season for angling, and the bass appeared as numerous as ever. On the 

 whole he thinks there is an improvement in the way of observing the laws, 

 and the keeping of the various close seasons. 



Overseer McAulay, Southampton, Lake Huron, reports that the fishing 

 was not as good with some of the tug fishermen as in former years, but this 

 can be accounted for in a measure by the fact that some of them did not 

 fish all the season. The herring fishinsr was good, that species of fish being 

 more numerous than they have been for the past twelve years. The laws 

 and regulations were well observed. 



District Overseer McCargar, Belleville, reports that the fishermen who 

 took out licenses this year for the Bay of Quinte had good luck, as all kinds 

 of fish were more plentiful than they have been for some years. The fisher- 

 men in Weller's Bay and Consecon Lake had very good luck, but the catch 

 was not quite so large as last year. There is fine angling in Weller's Bay 

 and Consecon Lake, and splendid hotel accommodation within three minutes' 

 walk of the boat. The bass fishing is first-class in Weller's Bay, and east 

 of the hotel to Consecon Lake there is first-class pickerel fishing. He advo- 

 cates the stocking of the back lakes where there are no game fish, such as 

 salmon trout, bass and makinonge. There are lots of fine lakes in most 

 all of the northern parts of the counties east of Toronto that shoulcT be 

 stocked with bass or some other good fish, and there are some places on the 

 Trent River, and some on the Moira River, where fish hatcheries could be 

 started with very small cost. There are, also, a few good places along 

 the Bay of Quinte where there could be a great number of black bass hatch- 

 ed, and put in ihe bay at a small cost. The Dominion Government put a 

 lot of black bass in the Bay of Quinte last fall, and in eight or ten lakes 

 in the Counties of Hastings and Addington. The Government should. as- 

 sist in starting hatcheries, and stocking those lakes that h&ve no bass in, 



