'15-'16 duck season dates set

[fishfighter]

apparently who ever went to the meeting and spoke their mind just wasted their time, public opinion doesn't matter, Chad doesn't care what you have to say


http://www.louisianasportsman.com/details.php?id=8507

[CameronHunter]

Remember boys and girls, Mr. Courville is ex Ducks Unlimited employee. Do you think DU wants to optimize coastal waterfowling for all of us or just the fat cats? Its the DU way. Chew on that for a minute. I also feel he contradicted what he said earlier in his interview as it pertained to setting the duck season by data. The next thing he says is that someone asked if he had a problem with lowering the days for specks and he agrees with no reference to using "data" to guide his decision. The data showed that a 88-2 speck season would statistically not harm the population, then why agree to less. Sounds like a concession to the other committee member to get his vote to pass the change to the duck dates. Back room politics at Its best. Of course its all speculation but hey, what else are we going to talk about until duck season.

CH

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by CameronHunter

Remember boys and girls, Mr. Courville is ex Ducks Unlimited employee. Do you think DU wants to optimize coastal waterfowling for all of us or just the fat cats? Its the DU way. Chew on that for a minute. I also feel he contradicted what he said earlier in his interview as it pertained to setting the duck season by data. The next thing he says is that someone asked if he had a problem with lowering the days for specks and he agrees with no reference to using "data" to guide his decision. The data showed that a 88-2 speck season would statistically not harm the population, then why agree to less. Sounds like a concession to the other committee member to get his vote to pass the change to the duck dates. Back room politics at Its best. Of course its all speculation but hey, what else are we going to talk about until duck season.

CH

It took 47 posts before Ducks Unlimited was brought up. Gotta be a record for an a duck thread

[AubreyLaHaye458]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

It took 47 posts before Ducks Unlimited was brought up. Gotta be a record for an a duck thread

Please refer to post #9. lol


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[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458

Please refer to post #9. lol


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Well hell

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by fishfighter

apparently who ever went to the meeting and spoke their mind just wasted their time, public opinion doesn't matter, Chad doesn't care what you have to say


http://www.louisianasportsman.com/details.php?id=8507

Like him or not, he made some valid points

[fishfighter]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

Like him or not, he made some valid points

i got no dog in this fight, i don't duck hunt enough to matter, and don't shoot well enough for the ducks to worry, i was just "ruffling feathers" of the duck hunters

[Duck Butter]

[QUOTE=fishfighter;768557]i got no dog in this fight, i don't duck hunt enough to matter, and don't shoot well enough for the ducks to worry, i was just "ruffling feathers" of the duck hunters

[B-Stealth]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

Like him or not, he made some valid points

Yep, it makes sense to me, duck hunters are like women, you will go crazy trying to please them all the time. Duck hunters as a whole are irrational; why else would we do crazy **** to kill ducks. We have a long history of justifying absolutely absurd decisions, such as 20k duck boat, or a $5,000 lab.

I may have missed it but where is he pulling the harvest data from, HIP survey?

[cgoods17]

For goose hunters, Courville pointed out his original proposal for the Commission was for an 88-day season with a two-bird bag limit. He was asked by another commissioner if he was OK with reducing the season to 81 days, and he agreed.

The variability of the number of white-fronted geese (specklebellies) that arrive in Louisiana from year to year is cause for concern, he said.

“For Canadas and specks, I don’t think we have a very good handle on what’s going on with those two birds in this state. We need to spend a lot more time talking about them, and finding out what’s going on with them,” he said. “Do we have a legitimate pressure problem, or is just one year they’re here and one year they’re not?

“Is our habitat becoming more or less friendly to geese? I haven’t seen the habitat analysis of that area as far as what percentage of it has been converted out of rice, or has gone idle, but that’s the kind of stuff we need to find out to know if the number that we’re counting is a real number. And frankly, that matters more to me than what everybody thinks we should be doing.”

Regardless of season length, one question Courville wants to know the answer to is how long the specklebelly population remains in Louisiana.

“And as I appreciate it, nobody could answer that question,” Courville said. “But we need to know the answer because, what good is it to have extra days if you don’t have specks in the state?

“The whole point of my mindset, and what I believe my role on the Commission is, is we’ve got some fundamental questions that we need to ask. And if we don’t have the data, we probably need to spend some time and allocate some resources and go find out what that is.”




soooooooooooo if this guys has so many questions and we dont know squat about the wintering of specklebelly geese in our area, then why would they go from 74 days to 81? am i just stupid, or does this make sense?