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Show DUCK SHOOT STARTS SATURDAY; HUNTERS URGED TO 'SPARE THE HENS' The annual invasion of the state's marshlands begins be-gins this Saturday, Oct. 12, with an expected 35,000 due': hunterr. primed for what should be an excellent opening week end. Openin ;; day shoct will start at noon, with the early morning time being devoted to finding the favored spot and getting out the decoys. Hunters 16 years of age n-d older must: have the Federal Migratory Bird Hunt-'n Hunt-'n ; Stamp in addition to the small game or combination license. Duck stamps are available at any post office. Juvenile hunters 12 through 15 years of age must have only the small, game license; no duck stamp is required. Daily bag limit this year is five, with a possession limit of 10 after two days of shooting. shoot-ing. This year's bag limit may not include more than three mallards or more than two can-vasbacks, can-vasbacks, and this year's possession pos-session limit may not include more than six mallards or two canvasbacks. Goose limit is six birds, only two of which may be Canadian geese, and there is also the seasonal bag limit on Canada Geese of eight birds. Failure to plug shotguns and not starting and stopping with the shootoing hours are two of the most common law violations vio-lations during the opening week end of the duck season. DUCK HUNTERS URGED TO SPARE THE HEN Duck hunters are being asked to spare the hen, particularly par-ticularly the mallard hen, during dur-ing the coming waterfowl -season in an effort to leave a larger number of females for the next spring breeding season. sea-son. Hunters are being encouraged en-couraged to shoot greenheads all across the country this year, since if a larger percentage per-centage of the mallard kill is male birds, it is possible that many more birds could be added to next year's flight. Of all the mallards killed in the United States last year, 60 were drakes. If this percentage per-centage increases to 65 this season and the total mallard kill reaches an expected three million, as many as 250,000 mallards could be added to next year's mallard flight. Utah hunters should make an effort to make the mallards they bag drakes this year if possible. If the reduced bag limits and the spare-the-hen campaign are effective, and good breeding conditions prevail pre-vail in the nesting areas, the mallard restrictions may be removed re-moved next year. |
