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Originally Posted by southLA
Larry, I know about the 3 zones proposed for next year and the changes. Will the goose limits and dates be statewide again?
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Because of the longer season (81 instead of 74 days), and the apparent desire of the Commission to synchronize the split as they did this past year, we have proposed for a very similar statewide season for 2016-17. We created goose zones in case we have to drop back to 74 days because of population decline or the Commission decides to go with 74/3 instead of 81/2 or 88/2. In those cases we would probably open the North Zone earlier and the South Zone later. But for now, it's statewide.
We took a little heat from Todd Masson at NOLA.com for not sticking to our 74-day/3-bird recommendation that we made in August in his article at:
http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.s...ly_propos.html
That was my call based on 1) the discussion/outcome at last August's meeting gave little indication that 74/3 would pass this year, and 2) the only new information since that August meeting was the fall staging survey in SK, which showed a 4% decline in WFG populations.