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case in the hands of the Magistrate who dealt with it as the law provides. The 

 notices from the Department were all distributed through the district, and posted 

 up so that people would have a chance to know the law. 



No angling permits were sold by him and none were asked for. 



During the summer he discovered one set line in Ewart's Lake, the only one 

 he has come across so far. He had particularly warned people against using 

 them. No infractions of the game laws have come to his notice, and he believes 

 the law has been fairly well ohserved. 



Overseer James Myers, of Orchard, Ontario, reports that the chief fish in 

 his district is speckled trout; the catclies this year were fairly good. He examined 

 more trout this year than last year. 



The high water mark this spring took away five dams in his district, and 

 none of them have been rebuilt yet, leaving a free run for the trout for winter. 

 There are no speckled trout sold in his district that he is aware of, and no fishing 

 out of season that he knows or hears of. 



Last March, about the 27th, he was informed that there was a deer killed in 

 Proton about the 14th. He made two visits there, and with another man called 

 on several parties, but failed to get the information as to who killed the deer. 

 He wrote to a man in the summer to find if he could let him know if he heard 

 anything, but he said he did not. About the last of April he examined a parcel 

 of furs at Holstein, and being expressed by a man from Proton to London, Ontario, 

 but found them all right. 



All that came to his notice he reported to the Department. He has his 

 district fairly well posted with the game and fish laws. 



Overseer T. McKenny of Thombury reports that the fishing has been some- 

 what lighter this season than last, owing in part to adverse weather conditions 

 throughout the season. He regp'ets to say that during the season there has been 

 a good deal of illegal fishing principally with night lines in Owen Sound Bay 

 and in the vicinity of Griffith's Island. 



He has seized over seven miles of these lines, and in conjunction with the 

 very efficient overseer of the Department, Mr. Jermyn of Wiarton, twelve miles 

 of these lines were seized in one string. These lines are very difficult to locate, 

 and all kinds of devices are used to prevent detection. One is not to put buoys 

 on but to set nets on ranges known only to the setter, who knowing the exact 

 location drags for and finds them. Another plan is to set legal sized nets, (generally 

 herring nets) at each end and between them, night lines making it imperative to 

 lift istrings of nets to find lines, and as part of the outfit is insignificant as 

 compared to nets, the seizing of illegal lines is not regarded as a very serious 

 loss. He would suggest that the penalty for this class of illegal fishing be made 

 more severe as a deterrent to these law breakers. 



He has during the season seized some six or seven thousand yards of net, 

 some for being illegally set and others for being of illegal mesh dimensions, prin- 

 cipally herring nets some of which measured only 2% inch instead of three inches 

 as directed, but the 3 inch measure is too large for successful herring fishing in 

 Georgian Bay, herring being much smaller than in the Great Lakes. He would 

 suggest the advisability of making legal size 2i/^ inches extension measure. 



This fall, by authority of the Department, he engaged the fishing tug **T. 

 R. Morrill" to patrol Grey and Bruce Divisions which enabled him to seize a 

 large quantity of nets, two boats, one tent, and also trout hooks and lines. The 



