20 THE EEPORT UPON No. 13 



Lake Superior. 



Overseer A. Calheck, of Sault Ste. Marie, reports: About the 1st of November. 

 1910, he received instructions from the Department to hire a tug for eight days to 

 patrol the waters in his division on Lake Superior. He secured the services of a 

 tug, and on the 20th of November, as this is the close season for whiteliesh and 

 lake trout, he proceeded up the lake to Persian Island, a distance of thirty miles 

 from Sault Ste. Marie, and within four miles of the boundary line, and discovered 

 a gasoline fishing yacht lifting nets. They gave chase and after running nine 

 miles, succeeded in overtaking this yacht, and took possession of it. There were 

 two men on it; they had thrown away their nets and fish. These men were fined 

 $150.00 and their boat confiscated. He may say that this island is within four 

 miles of the boundary line, and is considered the best white fishing grounds on l^ake 

 Superior. There has always been considerable poaching done there by American 

 fishermen. He is using this boat on patrol duty on the east end of Lake Superior; 

 she had only been in use about five months when seized. He also states that 

 it would take up a very large space in this report if he were to enumerate by name 

 all the different places they made a landing at while on patrol this season, but 

 may say they visited all the commercial fishing stations between Sault Ste. Marie 

 and Otter Head, all the tourists' camps, the mouths of all the rivers of any im- 

 portance in his division, and only in one instance had to invoke the aid of the law. 

 That was at the mouth of the Batchawana Eiver, he had three Americans fined 

 and their guns confiscated for violations of the Game Laws. 



And he begs to draw the attention of the Department to the abominable prac- 

 tice of non-resident tourists or anglers of bringing firearms into this country dur- 

 ing their camping trips along the north shore of Lake Superior, some of tliem 

 bringing in shotguns and high power rifles, but a .22-calibre rifle is their specialty. 

 They shoot young ducks and partridge with these rifles. 



During his last trip up the lake he took particular pains to find out if small 

 game was plentiful along the north shore between Micliipicoten and White Gravel 

 River, a distance of eighty miles. He discovered eight partridges in that distance, 

 and these were nearly all old birds and very wild, and the only reason he can give 

 for the scarcity of these birds along that shore is that it is visited by a large 

 number of tourists, a number of them remaining there until the 15th of September, 

 when at that season ducks and partridge are well matured. 



This scarcity of partridge cannot be blamed on the settler, for there is no such 

 thing there. He might ask the ([uestion, why are non-resident tourists allowed to 

 bring in a whole arsenal of firearms. If they come here for the purpose of angling 

 in our waters they should not be allowed to bring into this country the weapons to 

 destroy our small game. He has taken particular notice to residents of this coun- 

 try who, when they go out for a week or two to camp and fish, take no firearms 

 with them, and why should non-residents be allowed this privilege? 



He would strongly recommend that custom officers, when passing non-residents 

 into this country at the border, be asked to hold all firearms which tourists may 

 have in their possession having a greater length of barrel than four inches until 

 they are going out again. 



Commercial .Fishing. 



In dealing with this question he must say that the setting apart of the Lizzard 

 Islands, six years ago, has been a great benefit to Lake Superior, in keeping up tlie 

 fish supply in these waters, especially in the vicinity of these islands. This preserve 



