- Dec 27, 2012
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2019/20 limit on Canada Geese will be 1
Bummer
Better than none by a long shot though
https://deltawaterfowl.org/atlantic...ortened-mallard-limits-reduced-for-2019-2020/
Bummer
Better than none by a long shot though
https://deltawaterfowl.org/atlantic...ortened-mallard-limits-reduced-for-2019-2020/
Canada goose hunters in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia face a limit of one bird daily, while the rest of the flyway’s Atlantic population zones will be permitted two daily. The move was largely spurred by poor Canada goose production in spring 2018, plus a 30 percent decline among Atlantic population Canadas in the most-recent breeding population survey.
“Atlantic Flyway biologists estimate it was the worst Atlantic population Canada goose production in 22 years,” said John Devney, Delta’s senior vice president, who attended the Atlantic Flyway Council meeting. “The collaborative Atlantic population banding effort accounted 30 juveniles for the 3,000 geese banded. That is abysmal.”
Atlantic population goose regulations are governed by a three-year average population estimate. The threshold for conservative regulations is 150,000 birds, and while this year’s estimate was 155,000, poor goose production compelled the Atlantic Flyway Council to act.