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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES 



No. 9 



During the period December 22nd to January 30th, hoop nets and trap 

 nets were set in suitable areas where ling were found to be running in large 

 numbers in lower Rideau and Otter lakes, located in Lanark and Leeds counties. 

 Our hatchery and field officers, through the kind and gratuitous assistance of 

 the Smith's Falls Game and Fish Protective Association, succeeded in removing 

 4,108 adult ling, which weighed approximately 14,835 lbs. 



Otter lake is in the neighbourhood of two and one-half miles long and 

 three-quarters of a mile wide and from this small lake alone 2,246 ling were 

 removed. Two hundred and ninety-five were removed from the waters of Wolf 

 lake, near Westport, Leeds county, bringing the total ling removed from the 

 region up to four thousand four hundred and three. 



The fish were properly disposed of and contributed to the food supply of 

 the needy of the district. The suitability of the flesh of the ling as food is un- 

 questionable; its repulsive exterior is one great retarding factor in its general 

 use. Recipes for cooking this fish may be found in papers prepared by Mr. Hugh 

 D. Branion, now of Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. Mr. Branion, v/hile 

 employed as an investigator in the Branch during the summer of 1930, carried 

 out some important studies in connection with the marketing of ling and its 

 edible qualities. 



After biological inquiry, the removal of pike from Hilton lake, St. Joseph 

 Island, w^as not considered feasible. 



Permits were issued to transfer pickerel in the Kaministiquia river, below 

 Kakabeka falls, to the waters above the dam, and certain officials of the Owen 

 Sound Game and Fish Protective Association were permitted to transfer rainbow 

 trout prior to their spawning season over the dam in the vicinity of Owen Sound, 

 located on the Sydenham river, under the supervision of Departmental officers. 



