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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es in regard to the construction and location of pound nets,the mesh of nets, the amount of netting, the prohibition of netting incertain localities, the closing of the sturgeon fisheries in the gieat lakesand Lake of the Woods, and the prohibition in these waters of nettingunder the ice and the use of naked hooks, gra))pling hooks and spears,torches, flambeaux or other artificial lights, on the lines indicated in theproposed international fishery regulations. (»I That in the event of licenses being issued for the ca)tturt ofcoarse fish only, tlie specific fish tliat may be caught be iiuMUioiied chsuiyon tlte license. (4 I Tliat in i-ivers, l)nys. clinniicls, slinllow and rcslriciiMl waters,tlie gcMHral )M)liry be adopted of under!nking llic icuioval of undesirablefisli wlien necessary, as a Pi-ovincial (Milcrpiisc, but wlune this is notfeasibh, tliat licenses for tliis ))ur))Ose be diily issued where absolutelystrict supervision can be assured, and llial in such cases any infringe-
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1912 AND FISHERIES COMMISSION. 89 ment of the license iu the matter of the deliberate destruction or saleof sporting fishes be punished by a fine of not less than flOO on each ofthe parties concerned, together with the cancellation of the licenses, ifany, under which the business of either is being conducted, and that theoffenders be debarred from securing any commercial fish license what-soever for a period of five years. THE SPORTING FISHERIES. The Economic Function of the Sporting Fisheries. The truth of the old saving, All work and no play makes Jack adull boy, ha« long been recognized by those connected with or inter-ested in the moral, physical and educational development of the childand youth, and under the advance of modem civilization greater effortsare continually being put forth to ensure for all young people through-out the early years of their business careers an abundance of wholesomediversions. Moreover, in view of the fact that fresh air is one of theprime necessities

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