re: 2015 Louisiana Waterfowl Hunter Survey

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If they want to know about people who used to duck hunt but no longer hunt, I would have helped him by filling out his form. But it doesn't look like that is a priority at all for him or the office.

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But we specifically asked about it.

1) Again, to have been selected for the survey you had to either have a duck license or been in the HIP database and reported killing at least 1 duck or goose in the 2013 season. So either there is an error in the database (and there are some) or you haven't been quit very long.

2) The survey clearly offers the choice of "did not hunt waterfowl in Louisiana last season" on a number of questions, but asks you to continue with the survey. The second question asks in which seasons did you hunt of the last 5 years.

So we would like to know about those who no longer hunt. As I said before, a surprising number of hunters don't hunt every year but still consider themselves duck hunters and have opinions about zones, bag limits, and other regulatory policies. Their (and your) answers to other questions on the survey can be compared to hunters that hunt every year to see if they have different preferences.

The questions on the survey clearly ask for feedback from people like you, so don't act like it doesn't. But like always, it is up to you whether to provide it or not.

What I said in my last post was that a "Lapsed Hunter Survey", ie. a survey of only hunters that had quit hunting, was not a priority for us at this time for obvious reasons. This survey clearly includes hunters that didn't hunt last year or in recent years.