. Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission 1909-1911 : appointed to enquire into and report on all matters appertaining to the game fish, the fisheries, and the game of the province of n asset which should not remainunexplolted, so that it would ap])ear that no eftorts should be spared torestock waters already depleted of this fish, and that in the case ofunimpaired fisheries and subsequently in that of waters in which restock-ing is successfully accomjjlished, some means should be sought wherebyexploitation of the fisheries may be effected to the greatest advantage
. Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission 1909-1911 : appointed to enquire into and report on all matters appertaining to the game fish, the fisheries, and the game of the province of n asset which should not remainunexplolted, so that it would ap])ear that no eftorts should be spared torestock waters already depleted of this fish, and that in the case ofunimpaired fisheries and subsequently in that of waters in which restock-ing is successfully accomjjlished, some means should be sought wherebyexploitation of the fisheries may be effected to the greatest advantage ofthe public without endangering the ]>er])etuation of the fish in theProvince. Past experience has clearly demonstrated tliat in (he liands of the(trdinary ccmimercial net fisliermen, no matfci* in what class of water,the ]Mirsuit of flic fish results in its rai)i(l disai>i)earaii(e, and if would,therefoic, seem advisable to debar the net fisluM-mcn, totally or in part,from i)r(>fifing by flic caiifure of this fish, for where there was little orno profit to themselves to be derived from its capture, they could at leastbe counfe<l on not deliberately fo pursue it. Then, in order to obtain f(U. A Sturgeon in the Rainy River District. 1 ^ ^^y^^^P j[j!PWBIIIIM Hauling in a Six-foot Sturgeon, Lake Huron. 1912 AND FISlIElilES COMMISSION. TO the i»uljlic the greatest benefit from the occiUTenee of these fisheries inthe Province, two means suggest themselves as available, namely toadopt the Ivussian system of subdividing the available fishery areas intolocations and auction the sturgeon fishing privileges in the same atfairly frequent intervals of time, making provision for a limited openseason, restrictions as to size, and for the very strict supervision of thefisheries, or else, after the Provincial Fish Agencies should have beenestablished, to enact that all sturgeon captured under the ordinary com-mercial fishing licenses issued by the Province, which could not beretu
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