1905 DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES. 21 



FISHERY LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 



The following is an extract from the Canada Gazette of Saturday, 11th 

 June, 1904: 



At the Government House^at Ottawa, 



Monday, the 30th day of May. 1904. 



Present : 



His Excellency the Governor-General in Council. 



The Governor-General in Council is pleased, in virtue of the provisions 

 of section 16 of The Fisheries Act, chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes of 

 Canada, to order that the General Fishery Regulations for the Province of 

 Ontario, established by the Order in Council of the 18th day of July, 1889, 

 shall be and the same are hereby amended by adding thereto the following 

 sections : — 



9. No one shall fish for, catch or kill in any of the waters of the Pro- 

 vince, in one day by angling, or shall carry away a greater number than 

 eight small or large-mouthed black bass, four maskinonge, twelve pickerel 

 (dore), or four lake trout. 



10. No one shall fish for, catch or kill, in any of the waters of the Pro- 

 vince, in one day by angling, or shall carry away a greater number of speckled 

 trout or brook trout than in the aggregate shall weigh more than ten pounds, 

 and no greater number than thirty speckled trout or brook trout, though 

 said number weigh less than ten pounds. 



No small or largo-mouthed black bass less than ten inches in length; no 

 speckled trout less than six inches in length; no pickerel (dore) less than 

 fifteen inches in length, or no maskinonge less than twenty-four inches in 

 shall be retained or kept out of the water, sold, offered or exposed for sale 

 or had in possession; but anyone who takes or catches any of the fish men- 

 tioned of less than the minimum measurement named, — which measurement 

 shall be from the point of the nose to the centre of the tail, — shall immed- 

 iately return such fish to the water from which it was taken, alive and 

 uninjured. 



12. The sale and export of speckled trout, black bass and maskinonge, 

 is hereby prohibited for a period of five years from the date of this Order in 

 Council, provided, however, that any person from a foreign country, fishing 

 in the waters of the Province, and applying and paying for an angler's per- 

 mit, may, upon leaving the Province, when the same are accompanied by 

 him, take with him the lawful catch of two days' fishing. 



The Governor-General in Council is further pleased to order that any 

 previous Orders in Council which are in conflict with these regulations, be 

 rescinded in so far as the Province of Ontario is affected. 



JOHN J. McGEE, 



Clerk of the Privy Council. 



WATERS STOCKED FROM 1901 TO 1905, WITH THE NUMBER AND KINDS OF 



FISH PLANTED IN EACH. 



1901. 

 Waters stocked. Species. Number. 



Muskoka Lake Bass 1.205 



Lake Rosseau Bass 700 



Lake Joseph Bass 1.0*3 



Fa*ry and Vernon Lakes Bass 2- 4 <l 



Lake of Bays B a ss • 693 



