1921 GAME AND FISHEEIES. 



As a guide to the importance of the fur-bearing animals as a resource of 

 the Province, a list as shown below of the pelts exported and tanned will furnish 

 some idea of the value of the pelts specified and the importance of the fur trade. 



Foe 12 Months Ending Octobeb 31st, 1920. 



Exported. Tanned. Total. 



Beaver g8,218 7,788 96,006 



Fisher 4,036 33 4,069 



Marten 6,225 90 6,315 



Mink 29,101 4,594 33,695 



Muskrat 282,593 151,473 434,066 



Otter 3,926 168 4,094 



For 5 Months Ending October 31st, 1920. 



Exported. Tanned. Total. 



Bear 355 54 409 



Fox (Cross) 34 5 39 



Fox (Red) 174 57 231 



Fox (Silver or Black) 11 .. 11 



Fox (not specified) 237 3 240 



Lynx 165 -5 170 



Raccoon 20 301 321 



Skunk 196 886 1,082 



Weasel (Ermine) 2,233 862 3,095 



making a total of 583,843 skins. The estimated value to the trapper is placed 

 at $5,811,146.39, being an average of the prices paid for the past year. 



Game Sanctuaries. 



Since my last annual report, the Nopiming Game Sanctuary has been created 

 and is situated between the Counties of Carleton and Kenfrew. This is a valuable 

 addition to the few sanctuaries that now exist and I must once more strongly 

 recommend that immediate steps be taken to provide for more sanctuaries in 

 that part of the Province that is so suitable from natural conditions to afford the 

 very apparent present need of Game Preserves of such an area as would tend to 

 protect existing game and to reproduce that which has been so lavishly taken, 

 particularly during the period just past wlien abnormally high prices prevailed. 



Hatcheries. 



During the year, the hatchery under construction at Port Frances was 

 completed and a successful hatch and distribution of pickerel was made therefrom 

 last spring. Improvements were also made at the Normandale Hatcherv. which 

 included a dwelling house for the use of the officer in charge at that point. The 

 details of the fry and fingerlings distributed for the year appear elsewhere in this 

 report and may be considered as satisfactory under the circnmstances, having a 

 total distribution of: 



Total 



