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Ontario waters through the southern portion of the lake; and to ensure 

 also that campers and canoeing parties are conforming generally to the 

 regulations and laws of the Province and of the Dominion. To enable 

 this work to be properly performed adequate equipment would plainly 

 have to be provided. In addition to this no commercial shipment of fish 

 should leave Kenora or vicinity without rigid inspection, which would 

 entail the presence of an inspector practically continuously in Kenora, 

 and it would appear that this official should also be charged with the 

 collection of the non-resident anglers tax and the enforcement of the 

 angling laws in the vicinity of Kenora, for which duties he would have 

 to be furnished with a suitable launch. Having once provided for the 

 adequate patrolment and protection of the fisheries generally, other 

 measures could be then introduced for the protection of the sporting 

 fishes as deemed necessary, with the certainty of their being carried into 

 actual effect. 



It would appear advisable, as already stated earlier in this section, 

 to indicate clearly on each commercial license issued the exact area for 

 which it was valid. By this means an effective protection could be 

 afforded to the mascalonge grounds and localities particularly adapted 

 for pickerel or lake trout trolling, as such could be excluded from com- 

 mercial fishing by the provisions of the license. An area within a given 

 radius of Kenora could be closed altogether to commercial fishing, and 

 an adequate hatchery plant could be installed within the closed district 

 to ensure the maintenance of the supply of the sporting fish therein, and 

 further, if it were deemed necessary, commercial fishing for the pickerel, 

 trout or any other variety of fish might be stopped for a term of years. 



If such measures were put into active effect there can be little doubt 

 but that they would meet the needs of the situation as felt by those in- 

 terested in the development and exploitation of a great tourist traffic, 

 while at the same time they would not bear too hardly on the established 

 commercial fishery interests. It is evident, however, that as the value of 

 the tourist traffic will be eventually, if it is not actually at present, im- 

 measurably greater to the Province and to the vicinity than the direct 

 and indirect revenue to be derived from the commercial fisheries, if an 

 adequate staff, properly equipped to enforce these measures, is not pro- 

 vided, by which means alone such measures could be rendered effective, 

 it would be better to sacrific the commercial fisheries to the extent of 

 excluding them altogether from the northern zone, for although illegal 

 m-tting would, in all probability, still flourish under inadequate super- 

 vision, at least the legitimate nets would be eliminated, and with an in- 

 spector even occasionally at Kenora open shipments should become im- 

 possible. 



In regard to the question of the introduction of black bass into these 

 waters, if it were possible to achieve it, it would undoubtedly add greatly 

 to the attractiveness of the district from the point of view of the visit- 

 ing sportsmen tourists. An experiment in this direction was made some 



