....the participants on this thread have shown no knowledge of the management system that makes their waterfowling possible.
If a flyway council ordered the reduction in Mallard harvest to 2 birds /day, that is evidence of a catastrophic situation.
It's not a grand conspiracy promulgated by entrenched bureaucrats to deny sportsmen their pleasure.
Something has gone wrong in the Atlantic flyway, and the bag reductions are essentially a last ditch (short of outright closure)effort to save the resource.
If you have a chance to read the link to the survey, the sky may not be falling.
Stable counts in the breeding grounds, and larger decrease in harvest than counts. If they aren't denying the sportsmen, who're apparently self regulating, who's ego gets satisfied by penalizing prior to establishing a reason for the penalty?
Are you sure that is a management system that is making waterfowling possible?
