Required Harvest Reports
Proposed change for 2019. Wondering why mandatory harvest reports? I'm guessing the short answer is greater quantity of reporting on wildlife numbers. Problem is there is no way to gain information about total population of wildlife from a harvest report and there's no way to keep those reports accountable to what hunters value ie hunting opportunity and sound wildlife management.
Here's a few issues
- non hunters can access and use our stats to influence wildlife management for their purposes.
- in Caribou ranges the stats are already used for over harvest of ungulates in an effort to disperse wolves. Apparently 23% of AB is Caribou range.
- Trophy hunters often will see game but pass and thus report zero harvest. This implies a lack of game and skews the stats. Likewise those unlucky meat hunters who see plenty of game but still fail to connect on their tag.
- it still doesn't offer hunters any further knowledge or say on quality of hunts. Example is a 15% success rate on a priority 1 good? What about a 5% success on a priority 4? Or 75% on a priority 12? Give the bios all the harvest reports you want and the hunting community still has no idea how the bios will choose to use the info.
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