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the herring, and in fact a marked improvement is noticed on all kinds, and no 

 complaints have readied him of a discouraging nature from his fishermen in Ijake 

 Ontario. 



lieports of the angling at the Beach Canal for small-mouthed bass are that 

 it has been better this year than it has been for the last seven years, owing to the 

 fact that there is no construction work going on at the piers. Some good catches 

 have been made this year. 



Trolling for pike was fair, but when one considers the great lot of dredging 

 going on at the different factories on the bay front and other harbor work going 

 on in the bay, and the mud taken out, which is carried out into deep water and 

 dumped from the scows, it will be seen that this will have a deleterious effect ou 

 the feeding grounds of the fish, but in spite of this the fish in the bay are holding 

 their own fairly well. 



He found that the shipping of fish to the United States market — New York 

 and Buffalo — was enormous, thousands of boxes of every kind going weekly — eels, 

 catfish, bullheads, trout, and whitefish. No one could believe that there was such 

 a large traffic going on in rough fish, but New York is the market for carp, sunfish, 

 pike, suckers, catfish and eels, and they are shipped every day through Hamilton, 

 during the fall, by the ton. The fish shipped to the United States this year have 

 been in enormous quantities, and he says he can prove this by personal experience. 

 The traffic inside of Canada was also very large. 



He received from the Sandwich Hatchery one million whitefish fry, and 

 planted them in Lake Ontario on the old spawning grounds. 



lie carp. He has had a licensed fisherman — an experienced man — seining for 

 carp during this season, and he has caught about 20 tons up to date, l^liis man 

 deserves credit, and is doing the fair thing. He is fishing for carp only, and there 

 are no complaints of any other fish taken by him. He has no pond to put his fish 

 in yet, but hopes to have an up-to-date one next season. If he had liad it this 

 season, no doubt his catch would have been about 50 tons. 



He has heard no complaints of the lot system on the shore of T^ake Ontario in 

 the County of Wentworth. 



Deer and moose. As deer came in and passed through Hamilton, he found a 

 great many shipping coupons not cancelled at point of shipment. It looked to 

 him as if it was done on purpose, and possibly the coupon returned to the hunting 

 grounds, so it could bring down a second deer. However, he cancelled all he 

 found not cancelled. He also found a great many heads, hides and other parts of 

 deer that were shipped here and there to friends, and as all looked as if they were 

 killed in open season (and no doubt were), by advice from the Department, all 

 that were going to Canadian points were let go and were passed by him. 



There is a traffic, although not of large dimensions, consisting /of the yearly 

 killing of the deer and moose heads in Canada, and handled by the various taxider- 

 inists and dealers in such animals, going on witli the United States. Most of 

 these heads reach that country and ornament the homes of their Avealthy people. 

 An export tax of, say, $25 on each moose head, and $5 on each deer head, sliould 

 be put on these valuable goods. 



He found that the traffic in furs started on the 1st day of November, 1910. 

 Just as soon as November came in, so did the furs, and so did the seizures com- 

 mence. Skunk, coon, rats and mink were all shipped together, and mostly labeled 

 skunk. His observations and inspections on these lines convinced him that a lot 

 of illegal trapping was going on during the close season for rats and mink. He 

 made a great many seizures, and it took a long time to straighten th6in out. Dur- 



