Thread: mallard releases

Originally Posted by Tim Allen

You're a very perceptive fellow. I doubt there has been any real move to move Parries to schedule 5- Unprotected, or if being a native it would even be possible but it is interesting that Nth Canty F&G are cashing in on permits some of which will be genuine disturbance work some on demand?

yes 90 odd bucks i believe there are farms near the lake who have yearly parrie and or swan problems.
since no one seems inclined to take thier swan limits a few times a season this is no surprise but instead of investigating spurious use of permits they slap a fee on everyone.
the incident that caused this fee was in april a year or 3 back and the most dodgy of crop protection claims imaginable.
but even so the opening of the summer parrie season to the lake as well seems a good move for the usually affected farmers and gunners anyway.
maybe some jigging of the swan season to bring it in line with the new parrie season could be in order to to save those that they know have yearly ongoing swan problems could get both dealt with sans a fee.
i think f&g could have figured out which properties have on going annual summer bird problems and exempted these.
issueing others on a ''look at the situation'' and act accordingly would be better than a taR with the same brush approach to all farmers.
anyway back to the subject.
im firmly convinced mallard releases on preserves and private syndicate land are the thin edge of a tourism inspired and rich sportsman wedge.
they will disadvantage any gunner within a 5 mile radius maybe greater and as auckland waikato has hinted are a selfish localised fix for the releasers.
how many wild duck will be taken instead of thier tame live decoys that have been payed for.
will there be a different charge for wild birds banded or otherwise?? will the paying customers be restricted to banded put and take mallards and told wild birds are off limits ??[not fn likely]no more than private syndicates will only shoot thier released birds.
will the preserves go the whole hog and become licence agents for f&g??im pickin eastern to take up that bit of brilliance first.
are these release,ees bieng banded and who,s monitoring the releases ?.