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game and fish protection. There are more people go out hunting and fishing, 

 but now-a-days they get a copy of the game laws or find out just how they stand. 

 It is nothing for him to be called on by phone from 20 to 30 times during the 

 24-hour day and night to answer questions about the game laws. 



He has patrolled the upper Ottawa RiTer very often and the lower Ottawa 

 occasionally, also the Eideau Eiver district. The Government patrol boat has 

 made several trips down the river where some 25 nets were seized. Fishing, he 

 says, has been very good. Others say it has been "poor." He has not much time 

 to fish when out, but on Labour Day his son and himself put in about five hours 

 at a point about ten miles above the city. Their catch was eleven bass, nine 

 pickerel (dore), three pike and half a dozen perch. They had one bass of 

 5^/4 lbs., 2 of 4%, and others were a good size. They used live minnows for bait. 

 Bass seem to be holding their own in size, but pickerel are smaller in size each 

 year. About two hundred dollars has been collected for licenses during the year. 

 He would recommend that a quantity of small black bass be put in Lake Deschenes, 

 as he believes has been done at other places. He has just come home after a trip 

 up the Ottawa, where he seized six guns from parties shooting on Sunday, and 

 the owners may be prosecuted later on. Ducks are plentiful but very hard to 

 get. They keep to the open water mostly. Plover were plentiful during the 

 summer, but have disappeared since the open season. He has heard that partridge 

 are plentiful, but so far has not been out after any. 



A gentleman wished to know if he could go up the Gatineau district and 

 buy partridge, and he told him (the overseer) that he could get all the birds he 

 wanted at 30 cents per brace. This is different to two years ago when the price 

 ran from $2.50 to $3.00 a brace. Of course there will not be a bird left alive. 

 Every farmer and his family will hunt, as they all have guns, and will kill all 

 they can, for no matter how little they get for them they consider it clear gain. 

 Every one in Ottawa will lay in a stock for winter eating. It seems a pity to have 

 this nice bird slaughtered, but he supposes they will go like the wild pigeon. He 

 thinks it is time some restriction was placed on people carrying guns. If it was 

 made compulsory for everyone to take out a gun license there would not be so 

 many out with guns, and the Government would make a nice fat revenue, say 

 $100 a year. JSTo sportsman would mind this amount, and then they could get 

 after those who had not a license. He would also recommend that the open 

 season for muskrat be shortened conisiderably. There is no doubt that at the 

 rate muskrat pelts have advanced during the past few years they will become 

 very valuable as a common fur before long. A gentleman phoned him that he shot 

 37 ducks in a few days within 15 miles of the city limits. 



Overseer William Mdjor, of Woodlawn, reports that the ten months past 

 have been well overseered in his district. Eish was not very plentiful this year. 

 Pike is scarce this summer, also bullheads, sunfish and pickerel. No illegal fishing 

 or shooting done. Everj^thing in good order in the past season. Some ducks, but 

 not very plentiful. Partridge are scarce, also geese. Not many muskrats were 

 caught this ispring. The water is pretty high in the creeks and lakes this year, 

 owing to the heavy rains. 



Overseer D. E. Younghushand, of South March, reports that during the 

 past year there have been no complaints of illegal fishing, and the fish and game 

 laws appear to have been well observed. The angling season was fairly good. No 

 permits were sold, and none were asked for. The principal fish in that district 



