re: Louisiana Game Harvest Survey

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What for? So LDWF can do next to nothing, other than flying over some marsh and counting ducks, to improve waterfowl hunting in Louisiana compared to almost all other states in the flyway?

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If you are sincerely asking "What for?", then re-read the original post in the thread. The ultimate goal is to justify/support a more cost-effective method of getting the harvest data to maintain an open waterfowl season. Regardless of the quality of hunting, migratory bird seasons are CLOSED unless scientifically defensible data can justify them being opened. Aerial waterfowl surveys, duck banding, and harvest surveys don't do anything to improve the quality of your hunting. They are simply required to provide legal justification for having an open season in the first place, and for monitoring changes in populations distribution, large-scale habitat use, survival rates, harvest rates, hunter activity, etc. that lead to increases (wood duck, canvasback, bluewing, white-fronts and snow goose) or decreases (mottled duck and pintail) in hunting opportunity. Consequently, we would like to do them as cost-effectively as possible.

Now ...... If all you really wanted to do was publicly gripe that LDWF doesn't do enough (or hardly anything) to improve the quality of you duck hunting, then carry on. This research project has nothing to do with that, one way or the other.