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| | Bill Parenteau | A 'Very Determined Opposition to the Law': Conservation, Angling Leases, and Social Conflict in the ... |
 | | At this time the Department of Marine and Fisheries also began to ban all fishing on some rivers where the salmon run had been seriously depleted or eliminated; the bans often were undertaken at the behest of local sporting promoters and met with hostility and resistance from other residents. |
 | | The successful fishery officer was one who understood the relationship between the local angling leaseholders and the provincial and federal fisheries departments, the sympathies of local politicians and patronage committees, and the likelihood that the other fishers in his district would take hostile action if he became zealous in the enforcement of regulations. |
 | | Brodeur, minister of Marine and Fisheries, 29 March 1909; R. Venning, superintendent of fisheries, to A. Bertram, 31 March 1909; Bertram to Venning, 15 April 1909; Venning to Bertram, 29 April 1909, RG 23, Records of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, vol. |
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