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Originally Posted by 270WIN
If you can get your hands on a copy of Alberta Outdoorsmen magazine for December, 2017, TJ Schwanky's article contains the best explanation I've seen.
Essentially it comes down to the fact that outfitters' clients enjoy a much higher success ratio than do resident hunters. Therefore for a given percentage of tags issued, for example say 10%, those clients will kill a much higher percentage of the total harvest than 10% and therefore a much higher percentage than they would have if the outfitters' allocation of tags were set at a number calculated to give them say 10% of the total harvest. Residents would then have to be allocated a smaller number of tags in order to achieve the same overall harvest target as established by the province's biologists. Assuming the number of resident applicants remains the same regardless of which method of allocation is used, a lower number of resident tags will result in longer wait times.
i think I've said it correctly. Hope so.  |
Thanks for the explanation, this makes sense.