ero.ontario.ca/019-0405: I…

ero.ontario.ca/019-0405:
I am not in favour of reducing the distance members of the same hunting group can be 3km. i would appreciate if it remained 5 kilometers.

I support non-residents of Ontario be allowed to hunt with immediate relatives. I recognize they would be required to purchase a 'non-resident' license, but would not be allowed to enter the draws. I would like to see some WMUs (like 47) opened up to allow non resident family to be allowed to come to this presently closed WMU to hunt big game once more with their families. Ontario may be Open For Business, but it is a bit late now that our children have had to seek employment in other provinces. I would like them to rejoin us at hunt camp.

I do not support Calf tag quotas. I believe multiple licenses should be attached to one animal, therefore reducing the potential harvest.

I support the Preference Point System - One point per year of applying since the last successful tag award. I do not support a Fee Structure for Moose where Bulls, Cows, and Calves would all be different pricing, with Bulls and Cows being the preferred choice. I would prefer a moratorium on Cow tags until populations are stable.

What I understand from my reading, to hunt moose, you need an outdoors card. The outdoors card plus a small allocation fee allows you to enter the moose tag draw, without first buying the "moose licence" for non existent product (a moose).
If chosen in the points allocation draw, then that individual buys a moose licence, and also pays an additional fee to harvest (if available) either a bull or cow or calf and receive their tag.
Next you have the opportunity to have up to 9 other unsuccessful or novice hunters join you to create a hunting party, and these nine do not have a tag; they may have paid an allocation fee to be in the draw, but they may not even have done that. The nine hunters are able to join the successful tag holder, purchasing their moose licence even after the draw. Swarms of tag-less low point hunters will be attracted to a known tag holder like moths to a porch light. The hunt camp hierarchy of who gets in, who in camp has the the best shot at next season for getting a tag, and even recruiting outside camp to bring in a high point sure thing hunter. Some camps will be shuttered for the moose season, without a tag and a 10 hunter party size limit. Many moose hunting licences, these which offer no moose as game whats-so- ever will go un-purchased, i predict. Revenues will go down, hunting pressure will abate, and hopefully the Moose population will rise, at the cost $ to the OMNR from hunter resignation.