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hunting ducks. This same man is back again this fall. It was last fall that he had 

 him fined. He held him up the other day and asked him his authority for coming 

 back to hunt ducks. He produced a non-resident duck hunting license which he 

 got from the Game and fisheries Overseer at Ottawa. He thinks this man had no 

 right to get a license for at least two years. The open season for hunting partridges 

 in the Province of Quebec starts the 1st of October, and in the Province of Ontario 

 the 15th of October. He thinks those dates should correspond in the two provinces, 

 as it causes considerable illegal hunting along the lines. 



Overseer John Devine, of Renfreiv, reports that the game and fishery laws have 

 been fairly well observed this year in his division, although complaints come in 

 from time to time claiming that illegal hunting is practised in certain sections, but 

 on investigation they nearly all appear to have no foundation. He has had three 

 parties before the resident magistrate during the year, and obtained convictions 

 against them. 



The hook and line fishing has been good in the Madawaska River and Calabogie 

 Lake. The black bass in those waters are plentiful. 



There were no angling permits sold this season. At present there is a regularly 

 licensed fishermen catching bullheads with hoop-nets in White Lake, and with 

 fairly good results. 



Deer are not as numerous as last year, owing, he believes, to the fact that 

 wolves are very numerous along the valley of the Black Donald in Brougham and 

 Griffith Townships, Slate Palls in Lyndock, and Mud Lake in North Cananto. 

 They have also destroyed a number of sheep belonging to the settlers convenient to 

 the above named places. He would suggest something should be done toward 

 exterminating them, or to encourage their extermination. Partridge are not as 

 numerous as last year, owing, he believes, in a large measure to the cold and 

 unfavourable weather of last spring. 



Overseer A. H. G. Wilson, of Eganville, reports that the conditions are appar- 

 ently healthy all over that district with regard to fish. There has 

 been no illegal fishing in this district. Any fisihing that was done 

 in his district to his knowledge was mostly done by campers who fish more for 

 amusement and sport than for profit, although there was no illegal fishing done. 

 There was no netting reported to him this season, and he has never seen a net out 

 on the lakes or anywhere else. He thinks it is a good idea to prohibit netting all 

 through that section of the country, as there are lots of fish for all if caught only 

 by hook and line, or trowl either, and he thinks next season will be better, as they 

 have had abundance of rain, and the rivers and creeks will be deeper and faster, 

 and fish will be able to get back to higher spawning berths and marshes on the creeks 

 and lakes. He thinks prospects are vieiry good for next season's supply of both fish 

 and game, and with a favourable winter there will be still fur-bearing animals left 

 in that district. 



Prom what he has seen and heard from the settlers wherever he has been they 

 are satisfied with all the conditions, unless hunting with dogs. They claim that 

 the deer are driven out of the country by outside parties who come into their 

 locality and 'bring a host of dogs with them and hunt for two weeks, and what they 

 don't kill and take away are driven out of their resorts and feeding grounds and 

 hunted back north of the Petawawa across the Ottawa Eiver to the Quebec side, 

 and lost to them entirely. The settlers claim if dogs were not allowed to run in the 

 hunting season there would be plenty of deer for all. But as it is the law, they 

 must submit to it for the present at least. 



