42 THE EEPOET UPON No. 14 



Kenoea Disteict. 



Overseer W. G. Muncer, of Minaki, reports that the fishing season has heen 

 one of the best for many years, throughout his district very good catches of lake 

 trout have been made. Fox Lake, Vermillion Lake, and Eed Deer Lake are ex- 

 cellent trout waters. Good catches of maskinonge have been made in Winnipeg 

 River, some of the fish turning the scale at 25 lbs. He strongly recommends that 

 the close season for lake trout be from October 1st, to November 15th, as he has 

 examined several doe trout during the month of October and found them full of 

 spawn and in every way too far advanced to be taken. 



Game, large and small, is good. Moose, caribou and deer are plentiful 

 Partridges are very much more numerous than last year. Ducks are scarce. Fur- 

 bearing animals are plentiful. 



The Game and. Fishery Laws have not been well observed, several violations 

 having occurred; three convictions were made and there are others pending. 



He recommends that the wolf bounty be increased, as the timber wolf is 

 increasing very quickly; also that residents and non-residents should be obliged to 

 take out a license for guns, as this will check the carrying of guns during the close 

 season; and prevent boys and girls under the age of 15 years from, carrying guns 

 at any time. 



Fur-bearing animals are very plentiful throughout the G. T. P. line, and 

 trapping is very much on the increase. 



Kent County. 



Overseer John Crotty, of Boihwell, reports that there was a decrease in the 

 amount of fish caught this year. There were fewer fishermen, some of whom did 

 not use their nets at all on account of the water being so high. No fish were ex- 

 ported, all that were caught were used for home consumption. 



The law was well observed during the season, no infractions having taken 

 place, there were therefore no fines imposed or nets, etc., confiscated. The close 

 season was strictly observed. 



Quail and black squirrels are more plentiful owing to the protection given 

 to them. Cottontail rabbits are very plentiful, and in some localities are somewhat 

 destructive. 



Overseer John Featherston, of Eenwick, reports that owing to the late spring 

 and the presence of the ice late in the season, the pound nets were set about three 

 weeks later than usual. The catch during last fall and the past season has only 

 been fair. Herring have been much larger this year, and a much finer and better 

 fish. Whitefish are on the increase, the catch has more than doubled during the 

 last three years, which speaks well for the work done by the hatcheries. Blue pike 

 also seem to be increasing, but he notices a large quantity of these fish being shipped 

 which he thinks are too small to be of commercial value, and recommends that some 

 regulation should be made setting a definite size or weight on the fish caught. 

 Fishermen with tug licenses have had only a :tair season, chiefly owing to so much 

 rough and stormy weather and the fish being nearer the shore, but some fine 

 catches of whitefish were made in the early spring. He estimates that about 

 seventy-five per cent, of the fish caught are exported to the United States. 



