Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-10-25 | Page 4 | Europeans Watching Development of U. S. Efforts to Save Wild Ducks

Europeans Watching Development Of U. U S. S Efforts to Save Wild Ducks BERLIN Oct 25 es 5 S. S S. S S. European European conservationists and zoologists are watching the development of Americas America's Americas America's Amer Amer- ica's leas efforts to save its wild ducks duck with much sympathy and considerable interest The effort to put down th the commercial exploitation of at game in America is being followed especially closely because Europe with a smaller small small- er cr wild life Ufe population ad a much more intense pressure for food by th the thc human population has permitted a much more more extensive killing kUling of ot wile wild ducks for lor or market purposes A European institution that has n no American counterpart is the commercial commercial commer commer- cial decoy pond Decoy ponds ar are bodies of water to which ducks ar are attracted sometimes with the addItional add addI- lure of food On their arc are structures of various vadous types which serve as traps The ducks lured into them leave only as as carcasses headed for far the market The annual drain o of at th these e ponds on the European wild duck population is a serious one In Germany there are arc at present J l 1 decoy ponds with an average annual catch of ducks In Denmark there are two with an annual average average average aver aver- age of in Belgium there are four but the average is not stated England has 21 such ponds but the average kill is only about the English use we the ponds as a sport no not for tor gain cain H Holland nd has the greatest number of ot ponds the number of ot the catch catchot of ot which has hu been until recently suppressed suppressed sup sup- pressed in the interest of the Dutch canning industry which takes the catch and has built up a profitable export export export ex ex- port trade thereon Now at last a I 1 Dutch ornithological organ has published pub pub- a statement There arc accord ing lag to it ponds in Holland most of which are in the provinces of Gelderland Gelderland Gelder- Gelder land South Holland and North Bra Bra- bant The average annual catch is ducks The open season lasts from July 27 until February 14 sometimes even until March 13 The he bands or banded birds have shown that the majority of ot the ducks caught in Holland come from Scandinavia and Finland In the thc thelong thelong long run tho the supply will unquestionably ably become diminished at the present present pres pres- ent eat rate of ot destruction It is obviously well vell nigh impossible impassible at pr present ent to expect much remedy as the Dutch government Is s unwilling to Interfere with a profitable home in industry industry in in- yet it if the open season were only somewhat shortened some re relief re lief Ud would ensue An effort eUort will therefore there ther fore be made at the coming international international international conference to bring about certain tam lain changes in the Paris bird protectIon protection protection tion convention of 1902 to reduce the open season to a period lasting from September 15 to January 31 I