(&) The limit of net specified as ten thousand yardfe to each License conditions, 

 fishing- tug, and three thousand yards to each sail boat; but no com- 

 pany or firm was entitled to have more than a total of twenty thou- 

 sand yards of net. 



(c) It was intended to limit all gill-net fishing after 1894, to 

 domestic licenses in Lake Winnipeg-, though pound-nets were to be 

 used under commercial licenses, four to each company, the mesh being 

 4.J incjies in the pot. This really abolished commercial gill-netting, 

 had the prohibition been carried out, but as a matter of fact, it was 

 not carried out, and pound-nets were never adopted generally by the 

 commercial fishermen in Lake Winnipeg. Gill-nets were also per- 

 mitted of four-inch mesh for tullibee; drag seines of four-inch mesh, 

 and gold-eye gill-nets in the Bed river of three-inch mesh. 



(d) The following close seasons were at this time in force : 

 Whitefish, tullibee, &c., October 5 to December 15, though on close seasons. 



Lake Winnipeg, for settlers, the close season was fifteen days shorter, 

 namely, from October 5 to November 30. 



Pickerel, April 15 to May 15. 



Trout, September 15 to May 1. 



Sturgeon, May 15 to July 15, and finally a weekly close time was 

 enacted from six p.m. Saturday to six a.m. Monday of each week. 



(e) Indians, it was provided, might have free licenses for food, 

 but not for sale. 



(/) One condition was applied to all commercial licenses, viz. : 

 that fishing under such licenses could be carried on only outside 

 certain prescribed limits, or, as the regulation expressed it, ' outside 

 the excluded limits as shown on the map descriptive of Lake Winni- 

 peg, which accompanied the annual fisheries report of 1890.' 



In 1897 the regulations were again thoroughly revised, and re- 

 ceived new authority by order in council, dated October 14, 1907. 

 Under 'these revised regulations the distinction between commercial 

 find domestic licenses still remained. The excluded limits above 

 referred to continued; the permission to use pound-nets under the 

 former conditions was allowed, but certain changes were made in the 

 close time annually and weekly, and in the mesh of nets used for 

 various fishes. All the various sets of regulations described were 

 framed so as to apply to the whole of the western provinces of Can- 

 ada, excepting British Columbia. They were described as Fishery 

 Regulations of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta 

 and the Northwest Territories. One of the most important parts of 

 our work has been to change this system of applying the same regu- Regulations applied 

 lation. to all these western provinces, and the time has come for to all Western 

 eliminating from the Manitoba and Keewatin Regulations all refer- 

 ences to the more western waters. These Manitoba waters differ in 

 so many marked respects from the waters to the west, that the 

 regulations which were designed to apply to all have never proved 

 very satisfactory, and those which we now recommend are applicable, 

 and are intended to apply, to the waters only of Manitoba and the 

 adjacent waters of the district of Keewatin to the north. 



The one marked abuse in connection with the regulations which Distinction between 



have for over twenty years been in force, has been that, while a dis- Domestic and 



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tinction was drawn between commercial licenses and domestic not rea iiy carried 



licenses, there actually existed no such distinction in practice, out. 

 Domestic licenses have universally and constantly been used for 

 commercial purposes, and it has been a matter of common criticism 





