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Partridges and ducks are the only game in his district. Partridges were only- 

 fair, but ducks were very plentiful both in the spring and the fall. 



Violations of the law are becoming fewer on the river. Poachers are afraid 

 of the patrol boat and give it a wide berth, as is proved by the small number of 

 seizures lie has made this season. He only seized one boat and net and two or three 

 spears with one small set line. 



Grey County. 



Overseer James Gillespie, of Berkeley, reports that with regard to the Fisheries 

 his duties were more especially to watch the inland lakes and small streams tO' 

 prevent the illegal taking of speckled trout. 



Early in the season he had tlie Regulations posted round the lakes and streams^ 

 and in public places. He went to Markdale and Chatsworth in order to post up 

 these Laws, and mailed several copies to be put up by friends. 



During the summer quite a number of people camped round Ewart's and Bell's 

 Lakes, mostly for pleasure, and he often used to visit these lakes, sometimes taking 

 a boat at night and dragging for nets, and sometimes watching from the shore, 

 but he found no illegal work being carried on. 



Early in May he, with Mr. Watson, of Toronto, deposited thirty thousand 

 speckled trout fry in Ewart's Lake, which connects with Bell's Lake and many 

 others, making a chain of several miles in length. 



He thinks the law is being fairly well observed round Chatsworth, as there 

 have been very few complaints. In June he received an anonymous letter from 

 Massie, stating that sawdust was being allowed to run into the river in that 

 vicinity. He investigated the matter and found the mill running, and the owner 

 was using a blower so that the sawdust did not fall into the stream. The matter 

 was reported to the Department at the time. 



Acting upon instructions from the Department, in August he visited the Mad 

 liiver, in Osprey, to find out if possible if any illegal fishing was being carried on, 

 and forwarded a report on his inspection the followng day to the Department. 



He did not sell any Angling Permits. 



In November he received instructions to go to the vicinity of Markdale and 

 find out if the Indians were trapping muskrat and beaver, as a report had reached 

 the Department that this was the case, but he could find nothing to lead him to 

 believe that they had been trapping beaver ; they may have caught some muskrats, 

 but this he could not prove. He explained the law to them and they left the 

 flistrict. 



During the winter he visited the lakes several times to see if there was any 

 evidence of anyone fishing through the ice, but could find none. 



With regard to the game, he thinks the law has been fairly well observed. Last 

 December he heard of one instance, when it was reported that a partridge was shot 

 out of season, but if this was the case, 'he is satisfied that the person did not know 

 it was close season. He supplied them with a copy of the Game and Fishery Law^. 

 It is a rule of his to supply these Laws to anyone whom he knows to be in the habit 

 of hunting or trapping. 



He is of the opinion that great damage is done in the spring by hounds 

 running hares, as they can be heard in the swamps every day. 



Partridges are said to be more plentiful this season. 



