limiting the number of…

limiting the number of people that can hunt on a tag will negatively impact larger long established hunt camps as well as have a negative impact on the industry. Camps that have over the years added members to increase their likelihood of getting a tag would then have to reduce their numbers. This proposed change would reduce the number of active hunters and reduce revenue for the MNR. It would also have a negative impact on supplier's of hunting equipment as well as lodges/motels. In the past we had 8 members. Back then, we had enough hunters to be guarantee ourselves a tag. Over the years we have had to add hunters to be able to continue to guarantee ourselves a moose tag. We now have more than 20 hunters as part of our hunt camp. Under the proposed changes, if we were to obtain only one tag, only 10 of our members would be able to hunt. The other 10 would not be able to participate in the hunt and as a result, would not come up hunting. Less would be spent on lodging travel, supplies and tags.

Over the last 6 years, since the guarantee to get a tag has disappeared, we have had times when we only had one adult tag, that all of us were able to hunt.

I know that we have also had times in the past that we only had calf tags.
Even in those times, we still had a majority of our hunters come for the moose hunt.

I think a couple of better solutions would be to either reduce the length of the season, or to have the tag for a successful hunter only valid for a 7 day period.