California Whitefront Limit 10/day!

[ganderblaster]

The way I understand it most of our birds go through here to end up there. They have way more hunters so how are we only allowed 5 and they can hammer 10 a day? I believe specks are almost double the target population #s in the pacific flyway but the #s are holding steady. In 10 years I have seen the speck #s that come through here increase a lot to the point where that’s about all we hunt for geese. It’s not uncommon to see a full /4 full of specks. Are the specks going to be the next snow geese and spiral out of control?
Could Alberta hunters not at least shoot 8/day? Interested to know what you guys are seeing in your area and your thoughts on an increase in the specklebelly limit.

[BuckCuller]

Yes Your right that speck populations are way up and thier flyway has expanded wider.
We shoot a lot of specs now in places we used to only see Canada’s. There is a lot more snows in these areas too that we never used to see.
I don’t think it would hurt the population at all to have the limit of five brought up to eight so you could shoot eight dark geese no matter what species.

[32-40win]

Was just reading this yesterday, May be that the specks will have the same issue as the snows in their breeding ground areas down the road. I find the numbers strike me as a bit low from what I've seen though.

https://www.wildfowlmag.com/editoria...ly-boom/331011