Skagit County, Washington Brant Goose Season Limited to 3 Days

By Vanessa Torres

Washington -(Ammoland.com)- The Washington Department of Fish another Wildlife (WDFW) announced restricted season dates for a January brant goose hunt, after counts of the birds in Skagit County indicated their numbers were below the level needed for a full season.

This year’s brant season in Skagit County will be limited to three days – January 9, 13, and 16 – based on criteria set when the season was adopted by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission in August.

“The number of hunting days depends on how many brant are counted during aerial surveys,” said Don Kraege, WDFW’s waterfowl section manager. “Two recent aerial surveys of Padilla, Samish, and Fidalgo bays each had counts of less than 6,000 brant, the number needed for a full season.”

In recent years, a full season has meant eight days of hunting, although bird counts haven’t supported that many days in the field since 2013, Kraege said. Last year, a low count of about 3,600 brant resulted in cancellation of the late-season brant hunt in Skagit County.

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