Calf tags No one should be…

Calf tags
No one should be able to harvest calves now without a calf tag, we cannot get adults without maximising our reproduction. Too many stressors on moose. We need to use the tools to grow the moose population, you cannot do that by killing to many calves. Many units in province are seeing major decline which reflects back to lack of available tags. We need to set this up for the future.
New Bow Season
I personally believe that there is way too much emphasis on gun season at the moment and it is affecting our bow season. With so little this leads to more competition with hunters for tags needing very large groups sizes to be guaranteed an archery tag while gun it is only 4-8 hunters in many northern units. More hunters are getting away from the gun hunt and looking at archery opportunities, I’m sure MNR can see this! We need to also see a more consistent allocation approach across the province I would suggest 15-20% of total harvest allocations going towards the archery season to be more fair, reduce competition for tags along with group sizes.

Group Sizes
Group sizes should be around 5-6. I also do think that if hunters want to hunt in a group that their names should all be on the same tag. If it is not, then the person in which their name is not on the tag cannot hunt on that tag.

Point System: I do not support the point system as it is going to penalize people who have been loyal to the current system. It also sounds like a very expensive system to have implemented for really no extreme gain.

Groups Hunting
I believe it’s important to only let people apply for tags in a group. Only a small percentage of tags should be allocated to those who are applying alone. This would still give unsuccessful group hunter applicants a chance of getting a tag in the second round of the draw. We need to get rid of individual hunters to maximise groups in getting tags. The longest running in the group would still get the tag as they do today.