Tennessee Duck Hunting Season Set
Tennessee’s 2008-09 waterfowl hunting seasons including the Tennessee duck hunting season and the Tennessee goose hunting season were established by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission during its August meeting at Pickwick Landing State Park on Thursday.
The TWRC serves as the governing body for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. TWRC sets the state’s waterfowl seasons each year within the framework determined by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Tennessee duck hunting season dates and bag limits:
Tennessee has selected the option of a 59-day duck season in the Statewide Zone for 2008-09. The Reelfoot Duck Zone will have a 60-day season.
The statewide duck season will be:
Nov. 28 through Jan. 25, 2009.
There will be no split in the Statewide Zone.
In the Reelfoot Duck Hunting Zone, the dates for 2008-09 are:
Nov. 15-16 and Nov. 29-Jan. 25.
The Tennessee youth waterfowl season will also be similar to last year, with only a calendar shift. For youth ages 6-15, the Statewide Zone is:
Jan. 31-Feb 1, 2009.
The Reelfoot Zone will be Feb. 7-8, 2009.
The Tennessee duck hunting daily bag limit will be six ducks that may include no more than four mallards (no more than one female), three wood ducks, two redheads and one black duck, pintail and scaup.
The daily bag limit of merganser is five, only two of which can be hooded mergansers.
The major changes in duck hunting bag limits from last year include:
The wood duck bag limit has increased from two to three ducks per day; scaup bag limits have been reduced to one per day; the hen mallard bag limit has been reduced to one per day; and canvasback season will be closed this year.
Tennessee Goose Hunting regulations:
Federal frameworks for Canada goose season were extended in the Kentucky Lake Canada Goose Zone and will allow 72 days of hunting across the state.
Tennessee will effectively have only two functional Canada goose hunting zones in the Statewide Zone and the Northwest Zone.
The Statewide Zone dates for Canada goose are:
Oct. 4-Oct. 11 and Nov. 28-Jan. 30.
The Northwest Zone dates are:
Nov. 15-16 and Nov. 29-Feb. 8.
Season dates and bag limits for light geese (snow, blue, Ross) are similar to last season with a shift for the calendar. The standard season will run:
Nov. 24 through Feb. 8.
Federal Conservations Order provisions allow the use of electronic calls and unplugged shotguns for the Feb. 9 through March 10, 2009, portion of the season.
