Big cuts coming to Moose Tags???

[trimmer21]

I'm hearing rumours that aerial surveys have shown dismal results in some of Ontario's Moose strongholds and drastic cuts to tags are coming for this season. Some areas could get cut as much as 80%. I wish I had more information but my understanding is final numbers have not been set yet.

I'm not too surprised after Minnesota cancelled its Moose hunt last year then from what I heard Moose hunting was not very good in many places last year in Ontario. Is this the end of Moose hunting in Ontario as we know it? With Deer suffering with one of the worst winters in many years its not looking too good for big game hunting in 2014.

"Rumors" are just that. Unless they're backed up with solid evidence,they're best ignored. Declining Moose population is happening across Canada. There's plenty of info by simply using Google. The trouble is that nobody knows why,but,that doesn't stop the finger pointing blame game which is about as helpful as "rumors." As long as aerial surveys are done properly and accurately,taking in a very vast area,if tag numbers need to be reduced,then,as ethical and honest hunters/conservationists,we have no choice but to accept the info at face value and agree.

[woody1948]

I will bet you if the quotas are cut, the numbers will not change for 21A. The MNR are dead set on wiping the Moose out of that area for a handful of Caribou. I will never understand how they think.

[bigr]

Natives are protecting mother earth don't you know. That's what they say.

[toddc]

from who?

[Fishy Wishy]

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[toddc]

good grief. Ok im sorry my great grandpa beat up your great grandpa. They want there rights then fine, Im ok with that.. No guns,outboards quads trucks electricity etc etc etc. thats all us terrible white mans. make a bow or slingshot or whatever else you want and have at her...Oh and try not to be a big tough Rambo online, Im not racist champ.

[outdoorlife]

good grief. Ok im sorry my great grandpa beat up your great grandpa. They want there rights then fine, Im ok with that.. No guns,outboards quads trucks electricity etc etc etc. thats all us terrible white mans. make a bow or slingshot or whatever else you want and have at her...Oh and try not to be a big tough Rambo online, Im not racist champ.

It seems, based on this thread, that the less people understand, the more inclined they are to talk out their arse.

Let me pose a question to all the experts on "native relations";

There are 10,000 people living in Kapuskasing. There are <150 adult moose tags available within 50 miles of town. Over a 130 of them go to hunters who don't reside in Kap. That leaves adult 20 moose tags. Now, of the 10000 people living in Kap, how many travel by vehicle in and out of the bush every day. Minimum 1500. Now 1500 people with rifles and calf tags (no adult tag) traveling in and out of the bush every day over a 5 week season, how many get a crack at a calf over 5 weeks and get it loaded in the pickup on the way home from work:

Answer : 100's
Problem : not sustainable.

Wolves: not the problem
Natives: not the problem

Solution: Simple, lottery for calf tags. Problem fixed.

[BPR 30-06]

It's also interesting to take into perspective where they do the surveys, I have seen just as many moose this winter in my travels (weekly) as any other, saw a beautiful big healthy looking cow today on my way back from Chapleau (a black one not the white)

TR you will always see Moose along highways due to the salt and the ease of travel due to lack of snow. Moose are not to be or shouldn't be hunted along hwy's. And yes are hit be vehicles but this has always bee a factor along the roadways.

[BPR 30-06]

My understanding is the the FN hunters do report accurate harvest back to their band and council the number of animals taken (unlimited) each year.
The band inturn hands this harvest number over to the MNR biologist at the district office in their area.
MNR will use this figure aswell as the (regular) application hunters harvest number to determine tag alocations the following year.
It is in the best interest of the FN to provide accurate numbers so that the number of tags allocated do not harm the moose/deer populations in their treaty hunting area.



Is there no reporting structure in place currently? I don't know anything about treaties so I don't know what FN have to abide by each year in terms of moose and deer harvests. We are lucky enough to draw our one adult tag per year and even luckier to fill it.[/QUOTE]

[Fishy Wishy]

how can we have a sustainable population when the natives slaughter the moose out of shear spite?

Im sure you know all kinds of fn that are tie wearing ,tax paying model citizens. I have a family full of full blooded native and I can tell you that as much as they cannot all be painted with the same brush as far as bad ethics it goes the same in the opposite. I have family members that go in the spring and spear steelhead by the cooler full, while the rst of us are trying to tie our little flies waiting for the opener.. I called the mnr a few years ago about the moose in the area of my camp, why do I need 15 men to get a cow tag? the answer was, well we see last years harvst, do a flyover finances permitting and guess how many the natives have taken out prior to the season.. It just so happened that they took out 11 from my immediate area.. How do I know? there machine to haul the moose out broke down and the called the mnr, who ever so nicely went in and helped them out, So you can be politicly correct, and yielding if you wish, but truth of the matter is there is a definate problem with the managment of this provinces game, and a large factor is our tolerance of those regardless of hertage that take advantage and exploit OUR natural resourse and right to harvest responsibly.

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Sawbill that was one terrific and I mean bang-up job of moderating.

Not only did you leave the racist comments you deleted where the racist was called out as a racist. JUST FAN-F'N-TASTIC.

You didn't only remove the line where he is called out but also all of the relevant parts of my post.

People here and moan about the FN all of the time...with no moderation I might add...and they expect the FN to not exercise their treatie rights??? They want FN to negotiate???? Why would they? Like really.

Great job. Just great. But hey the forum rules don't explicitly state racism is a no no...just personal attacks...good greif