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Brenton Hodgson
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18/01/2005 1:52
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I am originally from Tailem Bend (SA), and now live in New Zealand. I have travelled quite a bit over the last few years, and *EVERY* year this question gets asked just before duck season.

And the reasons for the ban are always the same, and boil down to one thing "any one who wants to kill ducks is a sicko"

Rot. While I have never been duck hunting, or even particularly interested in it (I prefer other forms of hunting), duck hunting is enjoyed by thousands of people, it is a family activity, and it performs a valuable wildlife management service. It even earns income for the govt and people in the area's where ducks are taken.

Come on people! You buy meat from the supermarket. Do you think that dies of natural causes?

Hunting is environmentally sound, causes LESS stress in animals than a trip to the abottoirs, and fills the larder with clean, healthy, non-ge, non-antibiotic, non-factory meat.

It is exercise, it aids the economy, and it is part of our Australian tradition.

Cheers,

Brenton

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Kevin
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18/01/2005 1:36
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Ducks, like any other animal are a renewable resource and properly managed they can be harvested until infinity. The key is "management". Duck populations are more influenced by seasonal conditions than they ever have been or will be by shooting. As long as duck populations are treated as a renewable resource and managed accordingly there is nothing improper, or even immoral, with having a managed open season where hunters can take some as long as it is not detrimental to their overall population and seasonal conditions permit. This is not only true of ducks but all wildlife. There is no valid reason not to utilise a resource provided it is not to the overall detriment of that resource - what we do not have the right to do is push that (or any) resource to the brink just because it is there or we want to. So - duck season when numbers and seasonal conditions permit? Yes, of course. During drought when numbers are at cyclic lows? No, of course not. This principle should be applied to all natural resources. And I am not a duck hunter.

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