Identifier: gamefishercomm0911onta (find matches)
Title: 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 Ontario.
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ontario. Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission.
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Publisher: Toronto : King's Printer
Contributing Library: Ontario Legislative Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The Law Foundation of Ontario & the Ontario Council of University Libraries

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y of thelesser inland lakes. Again in Lake Erie and the Georgian Bay it iscomparatively common, the most famous district for it, ))erhaps, in thewhole Province occurring in these latter waters, in and in the vicinityof French River. Further west it is still to be met with in certiiin por-tions of Lake of the \\CM^ds, in S))ite of the fact that netting would appeargreatly to have reduced its numbers in those waters, and there wouldseem to be little doubt but that as the range of the angler extends overthe country in the Lake of the Woods region, it will be found to exist invarious of the waters of its lesser lakes. How far the range of the fishextends to the north has not yet been accurately determined, but itdoes not appear to occur north of the lieight of land. It is evident,however, that the very localized distribtition of this fish must endangerits perpetuation unleK*; the most stringent measures are taken to sup-))ress illegal netting and to ensun^ tluit the bag limit is enforced.
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Mascalonge. 9 F.C. 1912 AND FISHERIES COMMISSION. 105 Like all pike, the mascalonge is a voracious and cannibalistic fish,and is possessed of a very large mouth armed with teeth of considerablesize which give the fish extraordinary power in holding its prey. Inhabits it is a solitary fish, lying concealed among aquatic plants at thesides of the channels or beneath shelving rocks in open waters, andfrom its place of hiding will dart forth upon any living thing which isunfortunate enough to come within its reach and small enough tobecome its prey. At spawning, which occurs soon after the ice goesout in the spring in the shallow waters about the reed beds, the fishpairs, the female depositing a large number of eggs which hatch out infrom fifteen to thirty days according to the temperature of the water.The mascalonge has been kno^sTi to attain a gigantic size, running upto 80 or 100 lbs., but it is rare to-day to hear of specimens over 50 lbs.being caught. Fish up to 40 lbs. are, however,

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