Hunting wild pigs prohibited

[SongDog]

I think the s-s-s for pigs will be more along the line of shoot-skin-smoke than the usual s-s-s.

Ya I think so too, But when they start to add up people likely won't take the chance of being caught with the meat or processing all of it

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[oaknut]

I don't know, this almost seems as the MNR is planning on future pig tag sales. You can have as many as you like per year.... at $43 a pop.

I can't make the math work out on there being more pigs left if you kill them . It's pretty hard to fathom that 20 pigs is going to make more babies in a year than 50.

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[js4fn]

I don't know, this almost seems as the MNR is planning on future pig tag sales. You can have as many as you like per year.... at $43 a pop.

I can't make the math work out on there being more pigs left if you kill them . It's pretty hard to fathom that 20 pigs is going to make more babies in a year than 50.

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20 pigs let’s say only one was male. 19 x 6-10 + each

[mosquito]

Wild pigs running amok in Saskatchewan: researcher
'We are well on track to have more wild pigs than people here in Saskatchewan': Ryan Brook
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saska...ewan-1.6209851

Sows can produce two litters each year with up to 12 piglets per litter, further adding to the pig population problem.

4 pigs, 1 m- 3 f ... 2 litters of 12 ... ah, make it 8 instead 3 * 8 * 2 = 48 plus the original 4 = 52



Ontario is going to have a pig disaster withing a decade, not shooting them is stupid, probably some anti hunting PETA idiocy. Mandatory reporting of taking one and those with it and no limit is the way to atleast slow the spread.

I like PETA alternative ... People Eating Tasty Animals

Bury the carcass, then eat the meat. Waste not want not....

[impact]

"Why should you care? If you love to hunt and manage whitetails, you cannot also love feral hogs. They directly compete with deer for food like acorns and soft mast. Research even shows that deer avoid hogs, so it’s not even a competition: Hogs control the best food sources, and deer get the table scraps later. Hogs uproot food plots, sometimes raiding them for the seeds you just planted. They dig craters that are large enough to damage farm equipment. Hogs ruin forest roads, steal bait intended to attract deer to your trail-cameras, raid turkey nests, and generally destroy the deer habitat you’ve worked to build. They even foul the water in small ponds and wetlands, creating the kind of low-quality mudhole that is ideal breeding habitat for the flying gnats that spread the EHD virus among deer."

https://www.deerassociation.com/fera...can-help-stop/

[Fenelon]

The silly law is totally moot imo. Almost 100% of the piggy invasion will occur in the agricultural south, which is all privately owned. Any pig on someone's property is deemed a wild piggy. Will be totally legal to act as an agent for any landowner to hunt as much as you want. Time to buy a Bradley smoker instead of paying Mr. Schneider $8 per 350 grams at Sobey's. Think of all the fun that will come.

[Gun Nut]

This is a rather unfortunate announcement.

But at least a shred of common sense remains:

Thank you the information Bushwhacker. Like bears I have little interest in hunting wild pigs, but it's nice to know if I have an encounter with the same on my property I have some wiggle room to legally drop them.

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

[73hunter]

I don't know, this almost seems as the MNR is planning on future pig tag sales. You can have as many as you like per year.... at $43 a pop.

I can't make the math work out on there being more pigs left if you kill them . It's pretty hard to fathom that 20 pigs is going to make more babies in a year than 50.

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I would think the same, but I recall that experiences down in the States have been that hunting scatters the sounder and makes them harder to trap. And I agree that there will never be any budget to deal with them, money is not spent on these things anymore

[oaknut]

20 pigs let’s say only one was male. 19 x 6-10 + each

And that illustrated my point.... to a point. Now do that math with 50 pigs and say 2 are boars. 48X 6-10. Who's number is bigger. Heck let's do 50 at a 50/50 split. 25X 6-10. It's still a smaller number if more are dead.

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[Badenoch]

Thank you the information Bushwhacker. Like bears I have little interest in hunting wild pigs, but it's nice to know if I have an encounter with the same on my property I have some wiggle room to legally drop them.

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

With some limitations and requirements we've always been able to shoot animals to protect property. As the article notes if you shoot a wild pig you are required to report it to the MNR. What happens after you report it isn't known at this point. Although as suggested by some posters here shooting it, not reporting and eating it would appear to be an illegal act.