Excerpt from Report and Recommendations, 1910-11: With Appendices In 1887, the license system was introduced in Manitoba. In the eastern provinces, fishing under license had been systematically car ried on from the time of confederation, but there was no such System in force in the west until the date named, and it proved to be from the commencement quite a successful experiment. Official reports state that the method of licensing was most successful, and prevented Violations of the law as well as defined the respective fishing locations of the licensees. At the start, 130 gill - nets licenses were issued, and three drag seine licenses, but pound-nets which had been used for sturgeon, were prohibited. Among the early regulations applied to the province was a close season for Whitefish from October 20 to November 1, but the regula tions, six in number, passed July 18, 1889, altered this close season to October 5 to November 10, and provided also a close season for pickerel (dore) from April 15 to May 15; and a sturgeon close sea son from May 1 to June 15, as well as a trout close season from Octo bar 1 to January 1. There was also a prohibition of the use Of explosives in fishing, and a provision providing that waters might be set apart for the sole use of Indians for food purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.