Distress Call - What's happening to our moose? OOD Hunting Annual

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Originally Posted by rockyboy

Never mind bears, wolves, calf tags and cow harvest. The unregulated and unlimited native/métis harvest is certainly a larger factor

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Really? Do you have the numbers to back this up?

Essentially we have an unregulated and unlimited calf moose hunt by non-natives in this province every year.

No one does. That's the problem.

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Originally Posted by Fox

Really? Do you have the numbers to back this up?

Essentially we have an unregulated and unlimited calf moose hunt by non-natives in this province every year.

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Seriously we are still blaming this problem on the " non native" calf hunt. People feel your head and start asking people how many calves they shoot each year! Having a calf tag issued to every hunter is not the problem in my opinion. Far more moose taken each year by the natives. Far more moose shot and not retrieved each year than calves shot.

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Originally Posted by Donnie7

Far more moose shot and not retrieved each year than calves shot.

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Dumbest thing I've read today (and I've read some dumb stuff). I feel my brain atrophied reading this.

Many factors. Two years ago we shot cow 2nd day of archery season and we did not want to go home so we found a butcher one hour away. No problem getting meat cut, but cooler was full of moose???? Ours was the only archery moose in shop and no open gun season? Must all be road kills.

The calf tag system has made zero difference in zone 48.

Ask any butcher where the majority of moose are coming from. Native harvest every time.

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Originally Posted by rockyboy

Ask any butcher where the majority of moose are coming from. Native harvest every time.

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"Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position."

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Originally Posted by justinj

"Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position."

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That rock in your driveway is keeping tigers away, you better not get rid of that rock or you will have a tiger problem.

The Wikipedia scholar is right. Year long open seasons and unlimited bag limits can't possibly be harmful for the population