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Originally Posted by B-Stealth
What's your thoughts on allowing Speck hunting during the split?
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We did that in 2014 when the Commission set the Coastal Zone season dates a week later than we recommended. So instead of allowing the goose season to open with the youth hunt, we put 7 days of goose hunting in the 12-day split. I got a LOT of complaints from both goose hunters that wanted to hunt the Conservation Order during the split, and duck hunters that didn't like the goose hunters disturbing the ducks during the split. That's my only experience with it.
I've heard that the Commission, or at least a Commissioner, is going to propose adding 7 days to the goose season proposal to allow 88 days (the maximum offered by the USFWS) instead of 81. Because the season already runs to the end of the framework, those extra 7 days will have to be either in the split or in the front, so the goose season will open with the youth hunt. That has been the situation in the East Zone for many years, so I think I'd rather do that than put the days in the split.