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<blockquote data-quote="younggun308" data-source="post: 5320776" data-attributes="member: 4042"><p>Well done taking the opportunity to speak in vague platitudes (to thunderous applause, it seems)…but you didn't remotely address what I said.</p><p></p><p>Of course I am not implying deer and Turkey management are the same—but the logic undergirding bonus tags has nothing to do with the particularities of managing either. </p><p></p><p>WMA-specific harvest quotas (whatever the species) by definition manage hunter harvest on that specific property. However many tags you give out, is based on the assumed success rate and population estimates for that particular property. Whether the bird harvested on a quota hunt is a bonus bird or not doesn't affect how much hunter harvest impacts population there. If you think birds on quota WMAs are being over-harvested (which I don't think I've heard anyone argue), then the answer is to lower the quota there, not to make them count toward the season bag limit.</p><p></p><p>And with as few quota hunts/tags as there are in this state, I hardly think enough hunters find a quota hunt less attractive because there are no more "bonus" birds to make any difference on hunting pressure from season to season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="younggun308, post: 5320776, member: 4042"] Well done taking the opportunity to speak in vague platitudes (to thunderous applause, it seems)…but you didn’t remotely address what I said. Of course I am not implying deer and Turkey management are the same—but the logic undergirding bonus tags has nothing to do with the particularities of managing either. WMA-specific harvest quotas (whatever the species) by definition manage hunter harvest on that specific property. However many tags you give out, is based on the assumed success rate and population estimates for that particular property. Whether the bird harvested on a quota hunt is a bonus bird or not doesn’t affect how much hunter harvest impacts population there. If you think birds on quota WMAs are being over-harvested (which I don’t think I’ve heard anyone argue), then the answer is to lower the quota there, not to make them count toward the season bag limit. And with as few quota hunts/tags as there are in this state, I hardly think enough hunters find a quota hunt less attractive because there are no more “bonus” birds to make any difference on hunting pressure from season to season. [/QUOTE]
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