Subject: Re: PUBLIC COMMENT SOUGHT ON REGULATORY ALTERNATIVES FOR DUCK HUNTING
Date: Mar 17 20:14:28 1997
From: "Scott Richardson" - salix at halcyon.com


Connie Veldink wondered:
> information on the Adaptive Harvest Management Working Group--i.e.
> whether its recommendations are likely to be sound . The name alone
> makes me suspicious.

As I understand it, Adaptive Harvest Management allows the biologists and
managers setting seasons and limits to alter those settings based on
current-year data. When ducks are having good breeding seasons, the managers
reason that more liberal openings and limits can be set; if productivity is
down, they can be more conservative.
I think, too, that they can stop certain harvests mid season if specific
limits are reached.
Recommendations are the result of a "meeting of the minds" of state and
federal waterfowl biologists, so they are as sound as waterfowl experts can
make them. In the end, they seek to maintain healthy populations of ducks,
geese, and swans (for future harvests).
I hope I'm on the mark with this response. If not, I hope another Tweeter can
aim more true.
--
Scott Richardson
northeast Seattle
salix at halcyon.com
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