Texas Parks & Wildlife News, August 9, 1991 Page: 2
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'OCT 2 1 1991
2
CANADA GOOSE SEASON
MAY BE EXTENDED
AUSTIN--Canada goose hunters may see an extra week and an extra
Canada goose in their daily bag limit during the last seven days of the season if the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approves the proposed duck and goose
regulations.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is proposing the season for taking
dark geese (Canada, black brant and white-fronted) east of U.S. 81 from Nov. 9-Jan.
19. The daily bag limit will be one Canada goose or one black brant and one
whitefront. An additional week for hunting only Canada geese is proposed for Jan. 20-
26. The daily bag limit will be two Canada geese during this extra seven day period.
The possession limit is twice the daily bag limit.
"The Canada goose population continues to look good, so we're proposing
to liberalize the bag limit a little," said Bob Jessen, waterfowl program leader. "The
overall goose situation is very good in the Central Flyway."
The duck populations have not improved enough to warrant any changes in
last year's regulations.
The pintail breeding population is at 1.8 million, down 20 percent from 1990
and 62 percent below the long-term average (1955-90), Jessen said. "The prairie
grasslands of Canada have been taken out of production by long-term drought. The
good side is that pintails also breed across the arctic. They do their best in the prairie
grasslands but can adapt to the arctic tundra. While the tundra is not as good, pintails
are less likely to lose much of that habitat in the foreseeable future, and they're not in
danger of becoming endangered."
Mallards are about the same as last year with a breeding population of 5.4
million. That's 27 percent below the long-term average. "We expect an improved fall
flight from last year, but our concern for rebuilding the population continues," he said.
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Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department. Texas Parks & Wildlife News, August 9, 1991, periodical, August 9, 1991; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1033918/m1/2/?q=%22Landscape+and+Nature+-+Water%22: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.