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Queensland

Kangaroos in Queensland are classified as protected animals under the Nature Conservation Act 1992. The harvesting of 4 species of kangaroos is conducted in accordance with the Nature Conservation (Macropod Harvesting) Conservation Plan 1994. This subordinate legislation provides for the ecologically sustainable taking and use of macropods as a renewable resource.

The commercial harvesting of macropods is only permitted by licensed operators during declared harvest periods. Harvest periods are a legislative mechanism used to control commercial harvesting. Licenses can be issued for both commercial or recreational purposes. Damage mitigation permits may also be issued to landholders. All kangaroos taken under a commercial or recreational license in Queensland must be tagged using self-locking numbered plastic tags. Accurate reporting of the kangaroo take is a requirement of all license or permit holders.

Annual quotas specify the maximum number of each species that may be taken. These quotas are set conservatively and provide a safeguard against overharvesting.

The monitoring of kangaroos in Queensland is based on annual broadscale helicopter and ground surveys. Given the large size of the commercial harvest zone in Queensland, helicopter surveys are based on a sampling regime from representative areas. Information from these surveys and from the monitoring of harvest statistics (weight of carcasses, skin size and sex) is used as an indication of population trends. Trends are collated regularly for species on a grid square (half degree blocks), shire and biogeographic regional basis.

The Department of Environment can restrict or prevent harvesters from operating in specific properties, or shire areas. Queensland has also introduced size and weight limits to prevent overharvesting of small animals. In addition, the Minister for Environment may (in specified circumstances of high skin-only harvesting) assign 45% of the allocated quota for each of the three major species (red kangaroo; eastern grey kangaroo; wallaroo) to carcass harvesting.

Should the harvest for an individual species approach the quota, the harvest period can be closed across the State, ensuring quota overruns are avoided.

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Can anyone shed more light on buying kangaroo permits in Queensland for recreational pruposes? Thanks.

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Species suggested as additional game species included wombats and other species currently permitted to be controlled by farmers, as well as the larger species of kangaroos. Currently Queensland is the only State that permits hunting of large kangaroos for sport.199

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http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/enrc/unff/report/util5-07.htm



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John aka NitroX

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Govt get out of our lives NOW!
"I love the smell of cordite in the morning."
"A Sharp spear needs no polish"

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Now the shooters dont skin em a mechanical puller back at the meat joint takes the strain of skinning out of it.

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Roos shot for meat or "carcass" as it's known in the industry, MUST still have the skin on the carcass to be eligable for sale.
The carcass is then skinned at the roo works using a machine puller, and then the carcass is boned out.

Roos shot for skins have the skin removed in the field by the shooter or helper and then the carcass is NOT eligable for sale and must be left behind.
For many years most field skin removal was done by hand but as time went on various methods of field machine pulling were devised.
These included pulling the skins by using a vehicle and chains and later true "skinning machines" were developed.
Many were built by the shooters and some were powered by 12 volt starter motors and others were driven by small stationary petrol engines.
These machines were a vast improvement over hand skinning.

I first shot roos for a living in 1979 and made my full time living in the mid 1980's by shooting/trapping roos, foxes,cats and wild pigs.
When things went to plan, it was a damn good lifestyle!

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