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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES 



No. 9 



Ontario: (1) The Present Status of Fish Culture in Ontario; (2) Thirty-six 

 Years' Experience in Fish Culture; (3) Investigations on the Nutrition of 

 Speckled Trout; (4) Pollution Problems; (5) The Marketing of Ling (Burbot). 



The next meeting of the Society will be held at Hot Springs, Arkansas, 

 September 21st to 23rd, 1931. 



In order to avoid any possible overlapping of fisheries' investigations carried 

 on by the Ontario Fisheries' Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, 

 University of Toronto, and the Biological component of the Department of 

 Game and Fisheries, officials of both departments held a meeting on March 31st, 

 1930, to discuss the various problems undertaken with a view to more direct 



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A section of the interior of the Ontario Government Hatchery, Kenora. 



cc-operation along such lines, and the application of scientific findings to fish 

 culture and the fisheries of Ontario. The meetings will be held biennially. 



Fish Culture 



It is not difficult to conceive of so many anglers on a body of water, that 

 natural production alone cannot support good fishing. Since restriction of the 

 number of anglers is next to impossible, re-stocking and restrictions on size 

 limit, bag limit, and season are thfe only possible solvents, and it is believed that 

 artificial propagation as carried out by the Biological and Fish Culture Branch of 

 the Department, that is by co-operation between science and practice, will 

 continue to yield progressively fruitful results by maintaining the fisheries of 

 Ontario and increasing its usefulness. 



In 1926 the Province had seven hatcheries (including Port Carling) devoted 

 to the propagation of both game and commercial fish, and in 1926 eight additional 



