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Wildlife Biologist Lee Kantar From MDIF&W Explains Sunday Hunting
Before you go getting too excited about the title of this blog, let me first explain that Mr. Kantar relates the possible affects having an additional day, Sunday, for hunters to hunt deer. His efforts were done from a scientific perspective which is exactly what I was seeking.
Perhaps I should make a couple clarifications about Sunday hunting first. There has been talk here and there about Maine offering Sundays as another day for hunters to have a chance to hunt. The working man feels that Sundays would give them some more free time to hunt as many work 6 or 7 days a week. For some, Sunday would be an only day they could hunt.
Those opposed to Sunday hunting say they don’t want hunters in the woods on Sundays. It robs them of one day a week during the deer season were they could be outside feeling safe.
Landowners have threatened to close their land to hunting if Sundays were allowed. There are many reasons a lot of people have come up with for and against the proposition.
I should make it clear that of any of the proposals that have been discussed about Sunday hunting, none involve big game hunting, i.e. deer, bear, moose, etc. It has just been about small game – upland birds, rabbit, etc.
I have made my position clear on numerous occasions as to where I have stood on this issue. In short, I am opposed to a Sunday hunt for big game because I fear having an extra day of hunting each week would in the long run end up shortening the season.
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife does a pretty good job in maintaining our deer herd. One of the biggest tools they use in managing deer population is the issuing of Any-Deer permits. These fluctuate according to need. In other words, if hunter harvest increased because of 3 or 4 Sundays in November to hunt, fewer Any-Deer permits would be issued the following year. If that didn’t correct any upsurge in harvest numbers, a shortening of the season would be in order.
In my studies and travels around the country, I have come across several wildlife biologists who have said that in states that have a Sunday hunt, the extra day(s) had little or no effect on management goals for game populations.
This got me to thinking and so I sent an email to the MDIF&W and asked them if Maine had a position on this and if so what is it. I was elated to receive an email from Lee Kantar, a wildlife biologist from the department, who took the time to explain as best he could. As you will see from his response, there are too many unknowns to be able to be very definitive about this issue from a scientific perspective. Here is his response.
If you surmise as I did, my assumptions were not totally unfounded nor does it appear that 3 or 4 Sundays in November would have such an affect that is would cause the shortening of the overall season. It could happen but given the information shared with us by Mr. Kantar, it’s not real likely. This of course is my conclusion not his.
It appears that issues such as weather would have a greater affect than adding a few days. If this is true, I need to recant some of my previous statements as to why we shouldn’t have Sunday hunting. This doesn’t now mean I am for a Sunday hunt only that this argument appears to be moot.
Tom Remington
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