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citizens should 'be supplied before any are erported. I would reoonunend that all 

 commercial tish buyers should be licensed, not alone as a revenue producer, but 

 it would enable your officers to have a check upon them. 



Partridges have been plentiful, and T would recommend the season to begin on 

 November 1st, the same as deer, also to end on November 15th. Deer is reported 

 as more plentiful than last year, and nearly every hunter obtained his limit. 

 Beaver is reported to be increasing at an alarming rate, and are doing damage to 

 different farmers. I would recommend the season for trapping mink and musk- 

 rats to begin on the same date, and also that all trappers should be licensed, thiait 

 resident trappers pay a fee of $5.00 each. I would recommend that duck hunters 

 be limited to 100 ducks during the season, and that the sale of wild ducks be pro- 

 hibited, and that no fishing for bass or maskinonge be allowed through the ice. 

 Owing to the fact that wolves are rapidly increasing, I would recommend increasing 

 the bounty to $25 each. The revenue derived from trappers' licenses would more 

 than pay increased bounty. 



Your obedient servant, 



Alfeed Huntee, 



Inspector. 



GAME AND FISHERIES WARDENS. 



Warden^ Wm. Burt, of Simcoe, reports: 



Speckled Teout. 



There has been an increase in the number of speckled trout in those streams 

 in which was planted fry supplied by the Department. The anglers also report? 

 seeing numbers of small trout, no doubt being the fry that was planted last spring. 



Bass. 



The bass fishing in Long Point Bay has again been excellent. When weather 

 conditions were favorable, and the bass hungry, any angler could easily catch his 

 legal number of fish from a half hour to an hour. 



Commercial Fish. 



The commercial fishing in his district is practically the same as in his last 

 report. If there is any increase at all it is in the number of carp that are caught. 



Quail and Ruffed Grouse. 



The quail continues scarce in his district. From all reports he has received 

 he does not think there has been any change in numbers. 



The ruffed grouse are more numerous this year than last. There have not 

 been a great many killed, however, as the leaves have been on the trees until quite 

 recently, so that the sportsmen have not been able to see to shoot them in the covers^ 

 but from reports of people who have visited the covens during the summer, he 

 gathers that there is a material increase in the number. 



