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(15) That the services of a competent scientific icthyologist be 

 secured to make an investigation during the angling season of 1911 as 

 to the extent of damage, if any, wrought to the fisheries of the Province 

 under the present system of minnow seine licenses by the capture of 

 the immature of sporting or other valuable fishes, and as to the probable 

 effect in this direction of permitting individual anglers the use of a few 

 feet of minnow seine, and to render a report to the Government on these 

 subjects. 



(16) That the law in relation to the pollution of waters by fac- 

 tories and mills be most rigidly enforced throughout the Province and 

 that steps be taken to have the penalty for deliberate violation of this 

 provision raised to a sum of not less than |500. 



(17) That the issuance of non-resident anglers' licenses be placed 

 in the hands of transportation companies and reputable hotel and 

 boarding house proprietors, in addition to the government overseers, 

 and that the present percentage as paid to the government overseer be 

 paid for each license to the issuer of the same. 



(18) That steps be taken to secure from hotel and boarding house 

 proprietors lists of non-resident and resident tourists visiting their 

 houses each year, in order that reasonably accurate statistics of the 

 extent of the tourist traffic may be secured. 



THE PROVINCIAL FOREST RESERVES, GAME AND FUR- 

 BEARING ANIMALS. 



The Forests. 



In discussing the problems connected with the Provincial Forest 

 Reserves, the game and fur-bearing animals it is clearly impossible to 

 avoid touching generally on the forests of the Province, for not only 

 do these afford shelter to the bulk of the big game and much of the 

 small game and fur-bearing animals, but also, as they are conterminous 

 in many instances with the Provincial Parks, matters affecting them as 

 a whole must exercise an equal influence over the adjoining Parks. 



The great value of the forests is gaining yearly in recognition. 

 The marked rise in the price of timber, the enormous and increasing 

 demand for pulp wood to be manufactured into paper, and the threat- 

 ened shortage of supplies in this direction in the United States, have 

 all combined to call attention to the wonderful resources of Ontario, 

 and to their actual intrinsic worth. The diminution in the waterflow 

 of rivers and streams in those sections of the Province denuded of their 

 forests has but helped to accentuate the lessons to be learned from the 

 unfortunate experiences of Spain, France and China, that the even 

 flow of rivers and streams is dependent to a very large extent on the 



