Teal limit going up

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Top Dawg

Texas is the reason out mottled duck limit went down to 1. Their mottled duck harvest went down so their limit went down as did ours. Seems more of their mottled ducks are now calling Louisiana home.

Hurricane Ike in 2008 decimated the mottled duck population on the East Tx coast and TP&W asked for the limit to be decreased. FYI, Mottled ducks don't migrate; hence the name "Summer Mallard". While I disagree with the need to change the limit in Louisiana, it's really not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. My only concern with increasing the limit will be the increased number of wood ducks and mottle ducks that will be shot by hunters that can't identify birds in the first 30 min of shooting.