Moose Review Comments – 2019…

Moose Review Comments – 2019

The Green Bush Hunt Club is a proud member of the Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters and has been promoting sportsmanship and conservation in the Parry Sound area for over 90 years.

The Green Bush Hunt Club would like to submit our comments regarding the current moose review.
We realize that a number of information sessions were held; however it is unfortunate that the assumption was that no moose hunters live in Toronto. All reviews were considerable distance away.
General Comments

No integration with aboriginal harvest. The review and ultimate changes are insignificant if the aboriginal harvest not included.

Tourist outfitter integration. Tourist outfitters should not be guaranteed tags at the expense of other hunters. Paying an outfitter a few thousand dollars shouldn’t give an unfair advantage to tourist hunters. Perhaps some money collected from regular hunters could partially compensate the tourist outfitters

Year 2020

Our camp is located in WMU 47. How will calf hunting controls work in 2020?

Year 2021

It is proposed we can apply for moose tag with a modest application fee. What is meant by a modest fee? Will we know if there is a reasonable opportunity to draw a tag?

We agree with more restrictive rules for tag transfer with a goal of eliminating “ghost hunters”.

Points based allocation system seems to be fair if it provides an advantage to those who have gone a number of years without drawing a tag. We like the idea that a tag can be refused without affecting the number of points an individual accumulates.

The preference point system only works when a reasonable number of tags are available. For the past two years only one adult tag has been available in WMU 47.

Our hunters would only purchase a moose licence if someone in our group gets a tag. Group hunting would then allowed. How will we know who gets tags?

We don’t agree with limiting group hunting to ten persons. This would force us to break up our traditional moose hunting group of 16. We are OK with being within group hunters being within 5km of tag holder.