. With rod and gun in New England and the Maritime provinces [microform]. Hunting; Fishing; Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Chasse; Pêche sportive. «!^ei Up 464 IVi/h Rod and Gnu in N'e-u' Emiland ,.'( -'t*|i!|. spoken of as ' pot-hunters,' who care more for the pecuniary return than for the sport. These men are dangerous to the community beca jse they are tempted to shoot before the season opens, when they have a better chance to get the game than honest sportsmen do, and to shoot aftar it closes, because it is to them a question then of getting better returns. This class of ' hunte
. With rod and gun in New England and the Maritime provinces [microform]. Hunting; Fishing; Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Chasse; Pêche sportive. «!^ei Up 464 IVi/h Rod and Gnu in N'e-u' Emiland ,.'( -'t*|i!|. spoken of as ' pot-hunters,' who care more for the pecuniary return than for the sport. These men are dangerous to the community beca jse they are tempted to shoot before the season opens, when they have a better chance to get the game than honest sportsmen do, and to shoot aftar it closes, because it is to them a question then of getting better returns. This class of ' hunters ' would shoot very little if it were not that the market is open to them. As long as the markets are open they will shoot without regard to law, and not only shoot but snare. I am glad to say that the 'pot-hunter ' does not do as much harm now as he did fifteen or twenty years ago, because there is no question but what the sentiment of the community has grown in the right direction; and where twenty years ago woodcock and partridge could be easily obtained at the market or hotels in the close season, it is now comparatively difficult to fmd them there. By long experience we have found that the only way lo limit the ravages of this ' pot hunter ' is to limit the sale of his birds. It is practically im- possible to detect or catch him in the act of shooting, as you gentlemen can readily see, from the fact that his violation of the law is committed in the remoter parts of the woods and where, as a rule, he is necessarily ; From what has been presented in this article it will be seen that our officers have learned, in their attempts to preserve fish and game, that the market in every case has proved to be the key to the situation. They have found that a market being provided, there are men who are ready to do the rest, and it seems to be evident that so long as trout are seen to glisten in our streams, or the roll of the partridge's drum is heard in our woods, or t
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