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Show Waterfowl take lowest in seven years The official 1961 waterfoul harvest figures released by the department of fish and game this week, confirmed the observations ob-servations of most hunters. Among other things, the report re-port showed that the take of all types of ducks and geese has dropped to its lowest point in about seven years. Ducks taken last year numbered num-bered 116,636, little more than half the total harvest of the 1960 season. Snow geese in the bag dropped by 65 in final analysis while the number num-ber of Canada geese taken by hunters remained nearly the the same as in the year previous. pre-vious. For his efforts, thV average hunter returned from each outing with 1.78 ducks or geese, considerably less than was experienced during the 1960 season. ' |