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hatchery will be erected. It is the intention of the Department to erect this build- 

 ing in the vicinity of the Bass Ponds where ample water supply can be obtained 

 and the services of the staff now employed will be available for this important 

 work during the winter months, long after the raising of bass fingerlings is finished. 

 This. will enable the Department to raise these trout at a very little additional 

 cost after the hatchery is once erected. 



Angling Permits. 



The sale of these permits was much greater than the year previous. It may 

 have been partly owing to the better weather conditions, and no doubt to a great 

 extent to the improvement in the fishing. The reports which have been received 

 indicate that there is good angling, where in many places a few years ago the waters 

 had become depleted. Many tourists while passing through have expressed very 

 strongly the pleasure they derived from angling during the past summer. Others 

 have even taken the trouble, after going home, to write to the Department, expreas- 

 ing their satisfaction with their summer outing. It is with much pleasure that 

 I am able to say that the tourists have respected the Laws and Regulations in a 

 much better manner than heretofore, and I feel satisfied that the large majority 

 of them realize the importance of observing the same; although there are a few 

 every year, I regret to say, who have no regard for anything but the gaining of 

 their own selfish ends; they have found, nevertheless, that our officers have appre- 

 hended them in many instances, much to their sorrow, in the way of both expense 

 and trouble. 



Patrol Service. 



This service was extended by an additional boat, which patrolled the upper 

 part of Lake Superior. On the whole the patrol service was most satisfactory. Many 

 illegal nets were seized and the guilty parties brought to justice. There is no doubt 

 that this service is preventing, to a considerable extent, the setting of nets whicJi 

 a few years ago was carried on most extensively. 



It is with much regret that I am unable to publish, as I have done for years 

 past, the excellent report furnished by Dr. B. A. Bensley, of the University of 

 Toronto, with regard to the work carried on at the Biological Station on the 

 Georgian Bay. It is reported that the Department of Marine and Fisheries are 

 directing their attention to other Provinces and discontinuing for the present 

 their important work in this Province. It is sincerely hoped that another year they 

 will see their way clear to continue their researches. 



The Railway and Steamboat Companies have rendered the Department very 

 great assistance during the past year. 



They appear to realize the importance to the interests they represent of the 

 tourist business of the Province, which is only in its infancy, and needs for its de- 

 velopment the active co-operation with this Department of all those interested. 



My warmest thanks are herewith extended to the Railroad and Transportation 

 Companies in the Province, for the courtesy accorded the Department and my 

 humble self for so many j-^ears. 



All of which is respectfully submitted by your obedient servant. 



■R. TiNSLEY, 



December 5th, 1913. 



