Louisiana likely to get 45-day duck season
By JOE MACALUSO
Advocate outdoors writer
The Mississippi Flyway Council will meet later this month to develop the proposal for seasons and bag limits its representative will carry to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Migratory Waterfowl Committee.
The routine goes something like this: The 13 MFC states take numbers generated from the annual U.S.-Canadian breeding-ducks and breeding ponds count in Prairie Canada and the north-central U.S. and agree on a days/limits recommendation.
A couple of days later, the USFWS, through the Department of the Interior, releases the season "framework" for the Mississippi, Atlantic, Central and Pacific flyways -- the season length and daily bag.
That's the short version.
Know what? Thousands of duck hunters don't care. Just give them the dates and the limits and they're going hunting.
State likely to get 45-day duck season
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State likely to get 45-day duck season
"We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free." - Aldo Leopold
From the article:
"The suggested dates the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission will work from at its Aug. 4 meeting include:
West Zone: Nov. 12-27 (16 days) and Dec. 17-Jan. 14 (29 days).
East Zone: Nov. 19-27 (9 days) and Dec. 17-Jan. 21 (36 days).
The bugaboo about having 45-day seasons is that one of the splits in both zones has to close on a Saturday.
Methinks the East Zone hunters will clamor for a later close to the second split. Our state's East Zone hunters like mallards and the consensus for hunting mallards is the later the season, the better.
And don't you love Shakespeare for giving us a word like methinks."
Closing on Jan 21 sucks badly enough but closing on Jan 14 would really suck big time. I would rather have a 30 day season with all but one day in January than a 45 day ending on January 14.
"The suggested dates the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission will work from at its Aug. 4 meeting include:
West Zone: Nov. 12-27 (16 days) and Dec. 17-Jan. 14 (29 days).
East Zone: Nov. 19-27 (9 days) and Dec. 17-Jan. 21 (36 days).
The bugaboo about having 45-day seasons is that one of the splits in both zones has to close on a Saturday.
Methinks the East Zone hunters will clamor for a later close to the second split. Our state's East Zone hunters like mallards and the consensus for hunting mallards is the later the season, the better.
And don't you love Shakespeare for giving us a word like methinks."
Closing on Jan 21 sucks badly enough but closing on Jan 14 would really suck big time. I would rather have a 30 day season with all but one day in January than a 45 day ending on January 14.
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Arkansas
In the Memphis paper today, Arkansas was granted a 60 day season, 6 ducks a day. 4 mallards, only one hen.
Nov 19 to Dec 4
Dec 16-24th
Dec 26 to Jan 29th
I would expect LA, MS, TN to follow allong.
Nov 19 to Dec 4
Dec 16-24th
Dec 26 to Jan 29th
I would expect LA, MS, TN to follow allong.
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