Hunting License Sales Down

Thursday, September 08, 2005 04:01 AM

Local sporting enthusiasts say complicated hunting regulations are the main reason that the number of hunting licenses for residents is down in 2004- 2005.

In 2000-2001 there were a total of 93,326 resident licenses issued, 5,798 for non residents.

In 2004-2005 the number of hunters from the province had dropped to 84,003 a drop of 9,323 resident hunters or just under 10%.

Meantime the non resident numbers have increased. In 2004-05 they reached 5,931, up by 133 hunters from out of the province.

The biggest tumble took place in 2003-04 the resident hunters took a major tumble to 81,368. ALthough the numbers have come up somewhat, they are significantly off the numbers seen in 2001. Local sporting good store operators say when you take one out of every ten hunters out of the picture, “you bet we feel the difference”.

If you on the other hand are a sports fisherman again you will have noticed the difference in anglers on your favorite lake. Fishing peaked in 2001-02 at a total of 285,241 licenses issued, to a figure of 248,052 in 2004-05. Unlike hunting, fishing has been a steady decline since 2001-02. Why the drop of over 15%? Again local sporting goods operators say “why don’t you ask the public”

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Posted on Thursday, September 08, 2005 04:01 AM in News by Ben Meisner

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Posted by: DON on September 8 2005 8:35 AM

You need a lawyer and a banker to go hunting now a days.

Posted by: duffer on September 8 2005 9:31 AM

I believe the cost of hunting is getting more prohibitive with gas prices the way they are, expensive hunting licences, etc. If you are successful in getting an animal it then costs around 60 cents per pound to get it processed, and you pay on the weight of the whole animal when it goes into the cutter, and not just the weight when you get back. If you are getting sausage or something else made that, of course, is extra as well. If you watch the specials in the stores it is cheaper to buy meat than to go hunting. The only thing left is the sport and there are more and more regulations that take the fun out of it anymore.

Posted by: gypsy on September 8 2005 11:10 AM

So it is "fun" to kill a wild animal?????
And we call ourselves civilized????
And I suppose we are humane when a so called killing shot does not kill, and an animal suffers a horrible death in the wilderness???
My oh my, what a "sick society" we are part of.
No wonder we have the distinction of destroying the majority of animals taken to the S P C A.
Must be catching!!!!
I am pleased you are having less so called "fun" in your lives-big time humters!!!
I wish animals could "shoot" back.

Posted by: DON on September 8 2005 2:03 PM

Gypsy.. I bet you eat Meat..You just have some one else kill it for you. You believe... we are sick, But you also believe that it OK to kill a man if he cheats on you.AND YOU THINK WE ARE SICK..GROW UP DIP STICK....

Posted by: acrider54 on September 8 2005 3:15 PM

I agree Don. I think I will be buying a cow this year, a lot cheaper than hunting in the long run. I will miss the fun of the hunt though.

Posted by: duffer on September 8 2005 3:28 PM

Gypsy, I guess you are entitled to your opinion but I thnik I am also. I have hunted for quite a few years and have never wounded an animal and left it. We have always brought every animal out of the bush that we got and we ate them. I have seen some slaughter houses that have not seemed very humane to me, but a good portion of the population don't see them and don't really care. Food is food.

Posted by: gypsy on September 8 2005 8:48 PM

Yeah right DON. If a guy cheats he needs killin'. Most times he gets away scot free-but I do not object to that either. If you are giving reference to a recent court case-yep-he passed on, but she did not hurt him intentionally. Most guys have to work at not getting caught. Simple solution to stay alive.
I am a vegetarian-and low on protein-practically brain dead!!!!!
Don't get all fired up because you cannot afford to go hunting.
Tough to not be able to live off the land. Probably just the wrong color???
Met a fella' once who bragged about killing 7 moose one fall. I said he better mind the man upstairs was not watching, as maybe there would be a price to pay.
He paid-in spades. I still feel sorry for him.
So go have your fun!!!

Posted by: tami on September 8 2005 9:34 PM

Jeez Gypsy, what are you trying to say there? You seem to advocate cheating, manslaughter, vegetarianism and idiocy all in the same post. I'm not a big supporter of hunting myself, but that almost made me want to go to the nearest sporting goods store to buy a gun.....registered, of course!!

Posted by: gypsy on September 8 2005 11:15 PM

And pray tell, why would you need a gun??
But if you feel the urge-go for it!!!
Vegetarians will resent your use of the word idiocy. Protein deficiency-and let people wonder!!!!
Who mentioned manslaughter?? Accidental death it was.
Maybe cheating is a growing sport-but who cares???
Lighten up!!! Even when I am joshing you are ready to attack. Get a life!