MassWildlife Goose Control - Hunting Sept 8th

From MassWildlife:
2009 Early Goose Season Dates and Bag Limits Set

The early Canada goose hunting season dates are September 8 - September 25, 2009, with hunters allowed a bag limit of 7 birds per day.


"Data collected from agency goose banding activities this summer indicate the early goose hunting seasons have kept populations stable in the central and western parts of the state and full bag limits are rarely reached," commented MassWildlife's Waterfowl Project Leader H Heusmann. "However, in northeastern and southeastern Massachusetts, where we find our densest goose populations, hunters frequently filled their 5-bird limit. This indicates that the potential to reduce what are often nuisance population levels of resident Canada geese can be increased with a higher bag limit. The early season provides goose hunters with ample hunting and gives more time to landowners to allow hunters to reduce the size of nuisance flocks of resident geese."

Waterfowlers are reminded that state and federal waterfowl stamps are required for hunting waterfowl and that hunting hours begin one half hour before sunrise and end at sunset.

http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/recreation/hunting/hunting_opportunities.htm
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/recreation/hunting/hunting_opportunities.htm