Show Ickes Extends Duck Hunting Season to 60 Days This Year Increase In Population of Migratory Birds Longer Season Possible Secretary Ickes recently announced the hunting season for coots and jacksnipe has been extended to sixty days this year from the forty-five day limit of last It will open in Utah on October 16 and continue to December Announcing the annual regulations for shooting migratory the secretary said the ox-tension was made possible by an increase in the population of these The regulations also lengthened the hunting Shooting may start at sunrise and continue until 4 p. m. for Last year hours were 7 a. m. to 4 p. m. The bag limit on ducks remains at ten a day and the bag limit on geese was reduced from four to three a As in previous years the number of water fowl that may be possessed at any time is limited to two days' bag but a new rule makes it possible to possess the legal limit for twenty days after the close of the season instead of ten The bag of canvas buffleheads and ruddy ducks is limited to three a day ot any one of these Tho regulations also provide that not more than three of this entire group may be taken in any one The possession limit on these birds also is double the daily bag |