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Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck
It's a numbers game and Bowhunter success rates play right into it....
40% of how many?....5 taken, 2 archery kills is 40%
Or 100 taken and 40 shot with archery equipment.
What about successful draw applicants who used a bow before the draw season started...are they counted on the archery success percentage?
To make sense of the numbers we need all the info including the formula.
LC
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Will you ask the ABA to provide the numbers and formula and then share them with us?
This is from the AGMAG meetings....
Repeated information requests to F&W have not been filled for evidence of the "15% Archery Allocation Policy", but there have been responses that it cannot be found in writing. As it is not in writing, it is considered part of the "Art" of managing hunting allocations ....
Additionally information requests to F&W for new WMU based species population estimates/ harvest goals/ Allowable Harvest quotas/ resident success rates/ have been very slow in coming.
It appears that the new moose archery draws were based on a ratio of harvest estimates during resident archery/general weapon seasons, NOT on the harvest rates in concert with the Allowable Harvest Quota. This is where things go wrong.....
As you exampled, 2 archery kills out of five harvested animals in a wmu equates to a 40% archery harvest and was used to decide that the wmu is to go on to an Archery Draw. This is the wrong methodology!
What should have been done BY POLICY is to use the percentage of archery harvest as a factor of the Allowable Harvest. Eg Allowable harvest is 20 animals, total harvest is 5, 2 by archery = Archery Harvest is 10%.
Everybody is losing opportunity due to how F&W is currently using the wrong data to determine when archery seasons should go on to a draw. We need to get this mess straightened out....