Good day, First and foremost…

Good day,

First and foremost I believe that just like with the fisheries, we cannot allow a group of people to follow a different set of rules. I'm sure you are all very tired of hearing this but first nations people should not be allowed to hunt longer seasons and without sanction to shooting adult moose. I've been hunting moose for 11 years now and have been very lucky. The group of 9, I hunt with, hunt hard and are successful almost every year harvesting a calf and we have been very lucky over the last 11 years to get 2 bull tags which we also filled.

The problem isn't with a group of 9 people harvesting 1 adult moose or calf. The problem is with 2 maybe 3 sometimes more some times just 1 first nations person harvesting 2 maybe 3 moose in the fall with almost no fall back. I know quite a few people that hunt and fish and they all have the same stories. They know first nations people that go out and shoot 1,2 - 3 adult moose in one fall and they're all giving meat away, this really burns me up. I work as an automotive mechanic and you have no idea how many times people of which a write about that harvest many moose under a indigenous card will bring entire roasts to give because they're clearly harvesting more meat then they could ever eat.

In my opinion if you do nothing, about first nations people not following our same rules you'll never get the moos population in order. Just like lake nippissing. The lake was netted by first nations people for years and years and the ministry tried everything to sustain the walleye population slot sizes, limit reduction. Now we are only aloud I think 1 walleye as a limit. It took the chief to say we are ruining our lake we need to stop. And just from this you can see the walleye coming back around.

So if you are to make any changes that worth wild. In my honest opinion, something needs to be done about this or you may as well hang up the gloves as they say. Quit while you're ahead its not going to change.

And this is not a bash on aboriginal people. I have nothing against them. I know many indigenous people that do only harvest 1 moose a year and it's not because they cant harvest more but because how much meat can you eat. And maybe if I was born first nation and had a card and didn't have the right people to teach me I would be doing the same. But looking in from the outside I do see a problem. And sure allowing less adult tags and shortening the calf hunt will help but not for the long run. It'll only sustain low numbers longer, if even that.