New MNR licencing/print your own tags

[Species8472]

Did you try to print it more than once ? Can you make multiple copies (does it photocopy) ???

I did some of my tags (Turkey and Bear) and the MNR site gave me the option to save them as pdf files during the printing process. Once in pdf form the original tag can be re-printed an infinite number of times.

[blasted_saber]

The chances of running into a CO is remote. They're stretched too thin for that to be effective. This may not work out well. It doesn't appear to be well thought out,so far.

If you never encounter a CO then what does it matter if people have duplicate tags?

I will never doubt the ability and integrity of our COs, but the math is pretty simple; there isnt nearly enough of them to effectively police our natural resources. Theres too many people and too much land to cover. When I was in college in 2004, the CO giving a lecture said there were 180 active badges in the province, with 140 of those being field based officers. I dont know how that number has changed in the last 15 years. Thats not a lot for Ontario.

Hunting and fishing in Ontario has effectively been the honour system for all of my life. I have been stopped 2 times in my entire life by a CO in the field. Both fishing, never hunting.

[gbk]

I still think our oldest system was way superior to the latest-by now eliminated one,and this upcoming one .
The stickers were on the Outdoors card,the tags were small and handy.

In the name of money saving(which i still can not comprehend for the latest system where the plastic was 5 x bigger then the previous one.....)eliminated the old system,now with perceived convenience, and the notion of it does work elsewhere,they are bringing this one in.........we are actually doing nothing but copying another system which gives us nothing better then we had 20 years ago.
One size does not fit all.
Just my 2 cents.

[Saskfly]

If someone was going to poach a tag did not stop them in the past, so why spend thousands on a tagging system that did not stop them.

Take the money saved and hire more CO’s on the ground to enforce the rules!

Saying that the states that have this system also require you to stop at a tagging station and have your deer and tag validated within a certain amount of time. That would be a pain in the a&&.


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[Snowwalker]

If you never encounter a CO then what does it matter if people have duplicate tags?

I will never doubt the ability and integrity of our COs, but the math is pretty simple; there isnt nearly enough of them to effectively police our natural resources. Theres too many people and too much land to cover. When I was in college in 2004, the CO giving a lecture said there were 180 active badges in the province, with 140 of those being field based officers. I dont know how that number has changed in the last 15 years. Thats not a lot for Ontario.

Hunting and fishing in Ontario has effectively been the honour system for all of my life. I have been stopped 2 times in my entire life by a CO in the field. Both fishing, never hunting.

Only ever saw a CO here in Ontario twice. Once he was showed up as I was just getting back from a walk( not hunting) around a CA, and the first time I was sleeping on top of a wind row of hay in the shade between the morning and evening hunts, because it was too hot ( early goose) to move.

[MikePal]

The head CO in Kemptville told me that the MNR here is complaint driven....I think that is probably true across the province, with a few random checks of trouble areas and the odd 'blitz' checks along the hwy.

I haven't in 25 yrs been asked to show any paperwork. The Camp I'm in it's even been longer. And we're just minutes away from the MNR.

Saskfly is right..tags never stopped someone from poaching before...nothing will change.

[fishermccann]

You folks must not hunt and fish where others are doing the same. I was checked on Simcoe twice this winter, and once on Frenchmans Bay and have seen the CO twice in the past three weeks on a creek I fish for steel. Hunting a little different story, I have been checked once in six years at hunt camp . My son was checked twice in the past two years while bear hunting by the same CO in the same place. Why would they spend a lot of time and effort to check one guy when they can get on a sled and check 100 guys an hour on Simcoe or 20 guys on the same creek. It is a numbers game.

[gbk]

Same here i think You are right fishermcmann.
Chances of a bigger group being checked is the way i believe.

Was checked 2 years in a row with my group of moose hunters(5 and 8 respectively)about 1 hr drive from Hearst,in the boonies. Very detailed checks.One group member was checked at the same area years earlier ,each and every year.Maybe close to Hearst and because road conditions funnel hunters.
2 x around Elk lake moose hunting(same as for Hearts-lots of moose hunters there )1 x at Luther Marsh,and 2 x east of Mount Forest.