Thread: DoC Hunting Permit Survey

Who paid for the set cost? As a user of the system, I didn't. It's got to come from somewhere. And I think it's unlikely there are no ongoing costs to running the permit system - IT staff/overheads, monitoring, compliance, and all that fun stuff. Everything costs money. All I was saying is a small admin fee wouldn't be unreasonable.

I agree about permits. I also said in my feedback that there was little use in having annual auto-renew permits. Why bother? Save everyone the cost and admin. If you're going to have a permit system, it should at least provide benefit, like gathering info about how many people are going to which areas so resource can be allocated to those areas accordingly (e.g. access, track/hut maintenance, population monitoring, focussing pest control on areas with low hunter numbers etc.). Or for the roar, it would be useful to see how many other permit holders are going to be in a certain area for that week/weekend/whatever. None of those things will ever happen as it gets too cumbersome, but the point was not to overthink what is effectively a pointless system.