Thread: Whats your solutions to the duck decline?

# Research - climatic / enviromental influences
# Habitat retention & creation
# Mallard Breeding programme
# National policy direction not the fragmented approach we have at present individual councils having their own agenda priorities

Originally Posted by Bonecrusher

# Research - climatic / enviromental influences
# Habitat retention & creation
# Mallard Breeding programme
# National policy direction not the fragmented approach we have at present individual councils having their own agenda priorities

Agree with Bonecrusher. You can't fix a problem until you know the cause. Research is needed - and not just a token attempt. F&G need to get serious in their attempt to find out why numbers are depleting.
The banning of lead shot is just a crock. Heaps more ducks die from predators (hawks, shags, pukeko, stoats etc). Maybe we should ban them. Although I have modified the way I shoot to enable the birds to get closer now that we use steel, I see heaps more wounded ducks from all the surrounding possies. Neil Hayes believes that wounding has gone from 7% with lead, to 50% with steel. While I don't know the accuracy of that statement, just my own observations would back that up.
As Bonecrusher put it:
Research
Habitat
Breeding program
F&G council unity

Originally Posted by Lentil

Agree with Bonecrusher. You can't fix a problem until you know the cause. Research is needed - and not just a token attempt. F&G need to get serious in their attempt to find out why numbers are depleting.
The banning of lead shot is just a crock. Heaps more ducks die from predators (hawks, shags, pukeko, stoats etc). Maybe we should ban them. Although I have modified the way I shoot to enable the birds to get closer now that we use steel, I see heaps more wounded ducks from all the surrounding possies. Neil Hayes believes that wounding has gone from 7% with lead, to 50% with steel. While I don't know the accuracy of that statement, just my own observations would back that up.
As Bonecrusher put it:
Research
Habitat
Breeding program
F&G council unity

Lentil, I have asked and asked, as a result of the expenditure of monies gathered, what constituted 'research'...have never had a reply that was meaningful, deliberate, informative and quite frankly, sincere...I believe that just about every able bodied bird shooter in this country would go out of their way to help in anyway with whatever 'research' was needed to satisfy our queries.