Game and Fish to consider 60 day duck season | Arkansas News
July 23, 2009
By Joe Mosby
Arkansas News Correspondent
LITTLE ROCK — State wildlife officials Thursday recommended a 60-day duck season with a daily limit of six ducks, of which four could be mallards.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will consider the recommendation by its wildlife management division at the commission’s Aug. 20 meeting, after season guidelines are handed down by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The 60-day, six-ducks-a-day season is the maximum allowed under the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Adaptive Harvest Management Plan that has been in effect since the late 1980s. The maximum has been in effect in Arkansas for the past dozen years. Surveys this summer have shown duck breeding conditions are good in Canada’s prairie regions and in the upper Midwest of the United States.
Two options were given in the proposed duck hunting dates by the wildlife staff. Both have three segments. One is Nov.26-Dec. 6, Dec. 6-24 and Dec. 26-Jan. 31. The other option is Nov. 21-29, Dec. 10-23 and Dec. 26-Jan. 21.
A two-day youth hunt was proposed for Feb. 6-7, but commissioners promptly objected and suggested Dec. 5-6 for the youth hunt. February is too late, too cold, one commissioner said.
The duck season dates also include the hunting of coots and mergansers.
The wildlife staff also proposed changing the daily duck limit for Bayou Meto Wildlife Management Area to three ducks a day, of which two can be hens. Previous limit was one hen a day. Click link below for full story.
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DNR officials clarify rules for Mississippi River duck hunt | Pierce County Herald | Ellsworth, Wisconsin
September 19, 2008
Published Thursday, September 18, 2008
Faced in recent years with an increasing number of complaints about open water duck hunting on the Mississippi River, state and federal wildlife officials are issuing a pre-season rule clarification – and a fair warning.
“Duck hunting on the Mississippi River is becoming more popular, attracting hunters from throughout Wisconsin,” said Steve Dewald, conservation warden supervisor with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in La Crosse.
“As a result, competition for hunting spots is increasing. Unfortunately, last fall we got a lot of complaints that some hunters were not following the rules regarding open water hunting,” he added.
Under Wisconsin law, open water hunting is prohibited with the exception of specified water bodies such as Lake Winnebago in northeast Wisconsin and Lake Pepin on the Mississippi.
The purpose of the rule is to direct hunters to the edges of water bodies and allow large numbers of ducks to rest and feed in open water during their fall migration, said Kent Van Horn, DNR migratory game bird ecologist Full story
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