Thread: Gamebird licence...

Originally Posted by Tussock

I'm voting with my feet. I doubt I'm the last. What do fish and game do? Anything?

They make the hunting seasonal, they protect ducks. Without formalized game bird hunting there is nothing for the anti hunting brigade to target. With no opening day, no obvious governing body and no season they would take no interest.

There is no big social element for me, so losing opening is meaningless. So for me, roll on pest status for ducks.

Did you not just answer your own question, They protect ducks.
How would duck numbers "go up considerably" if they aren't protected? They would be poisoned and shot in large numbers year round by farmers with a problem with them. Would wapiti number increase considerably if it was open slather? or would they be gunned down by waro and hounded by foot hunters?
I'm not sure where you got anti-hunting from.

You act as though hunters are the only ones that affect duck numbers....