Posted August 27, 2015 7:36 pm by Comments

By Vanessa Torres

Duck Hunters
Arkansas Commission Approves 60-day Duck Season
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission

Arkansas -(Ammoland.com)- Arkansas’s duck season will again cover 60 days.

It’s the 19th consecutive year the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has approved a 60-day hunting season for waterfowl. The vote came last week during the Commission’s monthly meeting.

AGFC Waterfowl Program Coordinator Luke Naylor presented the Commission with the late migratory season proposals. Naylor summarized a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report that said despite an early spring over most of the waterfowl breeding population and habitat survey area, habitat conditions during the 2015 survey were similar to or poorer than last year. “With the exception of portions of southern Saskatchewan and central latitudes of eastern Canada, in many areas the decline in habitat conditions was due to average to below-average annual precipitation,” Naylor explained.
Naylor noted that Arkansas again had the highest mallard harvest in the nation with just over 530,000 mallards harvested in the 2014-15 season. The next highest mallard harvest in the nation was in Missouri with just over 254,800. No other state in the Mississippi Flyway harvested over 200,000 mallards. During the 2013-14 waterfowl season, Arkansas hunters …read more

Source:: AmmoLand

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