FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. •. 1 95 



The possibility of restoring this early abundance by restocking the rivers was 

 discussed for a number of years, but nothing of importance was done until within 

 the last few years. Numerous plants of young salmon, mainly quinnant salmon from 

 the Pacific coast, have been made in the various streams tributary to the lake, but 

 principally in Salmon River, since 1897. According to Mr. Lewis Brown, of Port 

 Ontario, hundreds of salmon could be seen in the river in 1899. He saw ten jump 

 out of the water in one day. Quite a number which had been killed by lamprey eels 

 were seen floating on the water. Many were noticed trying to jump Pulaski dam, 

 about three miles above the mouth of the river. They were first noticed in the river 

 in the latter part of July, and were seen from that time until the river was frozen 

 over. This is said to have been the first time that salmon have been seen in the 

 river for twenty years. 



I was also informed that salmon had been seen in Sandy Pond, which is about 

 four miles south of the mouth of Sandy Creek. This pond, which is merely sepa- 

 rated from the lake by sand banks, is about four miles long and about one-half mile 

 wide. Its connection with the lake is through a small creek. 



A salmon weighing about four pounds was caught in 1899 in a gill net set for 

 whitefish in the lake opposite Wilson. 



The results from the planting of salmon in Salmon River have been most gratify- 

 ing so far, and it is to be hoped that the salmon will be eventually re-established in 

 these waters. 



Ale-wives. — The dying of large numbers of alewives in Lake Ontario still con- 

 tinues, although not to such an extent as was the case about eight years ago. The 

 fish die and are washed up on the shore, generally in July and August, and, owing 

 to their rapid decomposition, soon prove very offensive to people living nearby. 

 Large quantities of them are captured in the trap nets at the eastern end of the lake, 

 but no use is made of them. 



Statistical Tables. — The following tables show, in detailed form, by counties, the 

 men employed, the boats and apparatus used, shore and accessory property, and the 

 catch by species and by species and apparatus : 



