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stock with suitable varieties of sporting fishes such waters in the access- 

 ible portions of the Province as are at present devoid of them. 



(7) That steps be taken to secure the co-operation of the public 

 press and of the raihvays in regard to the suppression of illustrations, 

 photographs or narratives depicting the capture by individuals of more 

 than the legal limit of any variety of fish. 



(8) That steps be taken to secure an amendment to the present 

 laws in relation to the numbers of black bass that may be caught in 

 one day by one angler, and as to the disposal of black bass of less than 

 legal size, to the end that it be declared legal when fishing with a fly or 

 single hook to return uninjured fish to the water and to continue fish- 

 ing until the legal limit has been killed; that bass less than legal size 

 which have been injured in the process of catching or landing or subse- 

 quently by handling be retained by the angler and counted as fish in 

 the total of his legal catch; and that the legal limit of catch for black 

 bass be raised to ten fish. 



(9) That especial care be taken in the speckled trout region to 

 the north of Lake Superior, when timber limits are being leased, to 

 maintain at least a fringe of trees along the banks of trout streams and 

 rivers, sufficient to afford the shade necessary to the fish's existence and 

 to prevent any undue raising of the temperature of the waters in sum- 

 mer months ; and that, if possible, the regular waterfiow of such streams 

 and rivers be conserved by maintaining around their headwaters an 

 adequate belt of forest. 



(10) That a special patrol officer be appointed in the spring of 

 1911 whose sole duty shall consist of watching and inspecting the 

 mouths and lower reaches of the rivers and streams entering the 

 northern borders of Lake Superior with a view to checking the illegal 

 netting at present being conducted in these waters, and that the said 

 officer be provided with sufficient funds to enable him to hire what trans- 

 portation he requires wheresoever he needs it in order efficiently to dis- 

 charge his duties. 



(11) That for the present no further plantations of rainbow trout 

 or other imported trout be allowed to be made in the Canadian waters 

 of Tjake Superior or Georgian Bay or in the rivers and streams draining 

 into them. 



(12) That steps be taken to secure an amendment to the present 

 regulations in regard to mascalonge fishing to the effect that hand 

 trolling for this fish be prohibited and rod and line angling be enacted 

 the only legal method of capture. 



(13) That in all lakes of less area than 20 miles square the com- 

 mercial exploitation of pickerel and lake trout be prevented in the 

 future. 



(14) That throughout the waters of the Province the use of any 

 bait furnished with more than three hooks or one gang of three hooks 

 be declared illegal. 



