NitroX
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With the duck season just around the corner, do you think “Duck Shooting” should be banned in the Riverland and Mallee?
Yes, No, Maybe - I'll say more in the guestbook
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http://www.abc.net.au/riverland/vote/default.htm
Results of the voting so far:
This week's question is
With the duck season just around the corner, do you think “Duck Shooting” should be banned in the Riverland and Mallee?
Yes 3%
No 96%
Maybe - I'll say more in the guestbook 1%
736 votes counted
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Some comments:
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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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NitroX
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My comment which still needs to be approved:
"I am a duck hunter and proud of it.
Every year we get these silly attempts to try to show the Australia "public" is against duck hunting, and/or hunting in general. Everytime they get shot down and we hear no more from the particular media organisation as the result was one they weren't looking for. Please ABC as the results are so very much in favour continue with the story as it is a positive result for the environment.
Duck hunters and their organisations do more for conversation than any of the rat-bag 'greenie' organisations. They spend their own time and resources building nesting boxes, repairing levee banks, planting native plants and weeding noxious introduced plants. Mostly without any thanks whatsoever from the government or the public in general.
With their duck hunting permit fees they have allowed the purchase of land now used for wetlands and still in some cases, duck hunting reserves. Unfortunately the government has seen fit to appropriate the majority of these funds into general revenue for many decades, thereby decreasing the conservation that could be possible. SA could be a paradise of wetlands if these funds still went to where they were intended when the fees were originally introduced.
Ducks are a renewable resource. Like many Australian animals and birds they are able to breed up numbers after decreases due to drought etc. This natural ability means the very small percentage taken as part of duck shooting is totally irrelevant in conservation terms. Indeed it probably helps the total duck population remain healthy.
Ducks shot are used as game meat by duck hunters. Very few would be wasted or escape and the majority make lovely roasts. What is better than harvesting a bird which has lived its life in freedom in a viable duck population, or eating a chicken which has lived in a cage all its short pathetic life?
Duck hunting adds to regional communities by travelling hunters purchasing fuel, food, supplies, accomodation in the areas and to and from them. Many foreign hunters envy our hunting opportunities and pay far more for lesser hunts.
Duck hunting has been with us for at least a hundred years. My grand-father shot ducks and I hope and plan for my great-grandson to hunt them one day as well. Why shouldn't he with the excellent duck conservation we have today?"
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NitroX
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A couple of plastic monkeys have finally found it and commented. The usual MENSA level arguments of course. 
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Debbie
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Duck Season
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19/01/2005 8:03
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Duck hunting is just another form of war for frustrated men who have the urge to kill and so take it out on defenseless beings (animals, women, children) to prove their masculinity. It needs to be banned as it is outdated and a disgrace to society.
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Roger
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Duck Shooting should be banned
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19/01/2005 8:40
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How about I start shooting at you while you desperately try and escape, fearing for your life. That’s probably how these ducks feel.
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NitroX
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Check out the guestbook direct.
http://www2b.abc.net.au/guestbookcentral/list.asp?GuestbookID=116&view=&numtoview=&start=&sort=&filter1=&filter1val=&filter2=&filter2val=&filter3=&filter3val=&advanced=&pagestart=
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John aka NitroX
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Bigfive
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NitroX,
I don't know much about your duckhunting there but maybe Debbie feels that way about men that hunt because she doesnt get enough duck!! 
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ovis
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Bigfive,
.............and there's probably a good reason that she doesn't get enough duck................ 
John,
Waterfowling is a way of life, for some, here in the states.......it's part of our outdoor heritage and has spawned an artform, decoys, that is a part of our culture.
Joe
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Bakes
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Here's one of the best looking ducks around I reckon.
A Burdekin duck. Very much protected here in Australia.
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NitroX
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Dantri
Yes i believe a good duck or two a day would settle her down.
I feel she may prefer fish.
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John aka NitroX
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wharf
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I bet she has never eaten anything from an animal in her whole life either(bullsh#t)
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if it bleeds we can kill it.
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mickey
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In reply to:
Poster: NitroX
Subject: Re: Anti-duck hunting poll - please vote
Dantri
Yes i believe a good duck or two a day would settle her down.
I feel she may prefer fish.
Hey, Hey, this is a family forum. None of that Blue State stuff here.
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