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<blockquote data-quote="Southern Sportsman" data-source="post: 4893235" data-attributes="member: 10399"><p>Mega explained it well. And I will add that this concern - i.e., that we are maintaining annual harvest around 30,000 turkeys by killing a progressively larger percentage of available males each year - is fairly well shown in the reproduction numbers. Poult recruitment (number of hens with poults and number of poults per hen) shown in the annual statewide summer brood survey has been steadily falling for a decade. So we're producing fewer turkeys each year but we're still killing just as many or more each spring. That math isn't hard to figure out. So there is not a magic number for annual harvest that would make me happy. The state acknowledging that poult recruitment is bad and falling and bird numbers are down in general and doing something about our unjustifiably liberal seasons and limits would make me happy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Southern Sportsman, post: 4893235, member: 10399"] Mega explained it well. And I will add that this concern - i.e., that we are maintaining annual harvest around 30,000 turkeys by killing a progressively larger percentage of available males each year - is fairly well shown in the reproduction numbers. Poult recruitment (number of hens with poults and number of poults per hen) shown in the annual statewide summer brood survey has been steadily falling for a decade. So we’re producing fewer turkeys each year but we’re still killing just as many or more each spring. That math isn’t hard to figure out. So there is not a magic number for annual harvest that would make me happy. The state acknowledging that poult recruitment is bad and falling and bird numbers are down in general and doing something about our unjustifiably liberal seasons and limits would make me happy. [/QUOTE]
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