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water's of the Province within five miles of any city or town, this pro- 

 vision, however, not to apply to the use of dip nets by anglers or to the 

 removal of undesirable fishes by government officials. 



(2) That the following areas be considered sporting fish reserves 

 and that no commercial net fishing or net fishing other than minnow 

 seining for bait purposes be permitted in them, this provision not to 

 apply to the use of dip nets by anglers or to the removal of carp, suckers 

 or other too prevalent coarse or predaceous fishes by Government offi- 

 cials or under direct governm.ental supervision: 



The Rideau Lake System, the Bay of Quinte west of the bridge at 

 Belleville and including Wellers Bay and Hay Bay; an area at the 

 entrance to the St. Lawrence River bounded on the west by a line drawn 

 from the south westerly extremity of Wolfe Island to the easterly 

 extremity of Amherst Island and thence northerly to the western end 

 of Collins Bay, and on the east by a line drawn from the eastern 

 extremity of Amherst Island to the town of Gananoque; the Kawartha 

 Lakes; Rondeau Bay and Long Point Bay in Lake Erie; Lake Simcoe; 

 Muskoka Lakes; Lake Nipissing and French River; River Thames; 

 Lake of the Woods within fifteen miles radius of Kenora; and the dis- 

 trict in the Georgian Bay defined by the Dominion Government Geor- 

 gian Bay Fisheries Commission and recommended by it for the purpose 

 of a sporting fish reserve. 



(3) That the artificial propagation of all classes of sporting fishes 

 be undertaken by the Government; that of lake trout, pickerel, masca- 

 longe and coarser fishes in conjunction with the commercial hatcheries 

 already recommended; that of brook trout by the erection of a special 

 hatchery on or in the vicinity of the Nipigon River and subsequently, 

 if necessary, in other districts ; and that of black bass by the institution 

 of a system of bass breeding ponds at various points throughout the 

 bass region. 



(4) That the exact location for a brook trout hatchery or for a 

 system of bass breeding ponds be determined by a duly qualified scien- 

 tific icthyologist. 



(5) Tliat special attention be paid to the waters of the sporting 

 fish reserves, above recommended, and of provincial forest reserves, in 

 regard to assuring and maintaining an abundance of the best class of 

 sporting fishes in them. 



(6) That where a demand arises for the introduction into any of 

 the Provincial waters of a fish, either indigenous to other portions of 

 the Province or from without the Provincial borders, which has not 

 hitherto inhabited the same, scientific examination of such waters be 

 made to ascertain their suitability before any experimental planta- 

 tions of the particular variety of fish is made; and that it be part of 

 the duties of the Scientific Research Department, previously recom- 

 mended to be established, to conduct such examinations, to supervise, 

 where necessary, the experimental plantations, and to endeavour to 



