Arkansas Duck Hunting Season and Bag Limits for 2008 and 2009

Arkansas is known as "The duck hunting capital of the world." More than 70,000 duck stamps are sold in Arkansas every year, and more mallards are harvested in the state than in the rest of the Mississippi flyway. Listed below is the Arkansas duck hunting season dates and bag limits and other Arkansas waterfowl seasons for 2008 and 2009.

Arkansas Duck Hunting Season Dates:

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  Nov. 22, 2008 - Dec. 1, 2008
  
  Dec. 6, 2008 - Dec. 24, 2008
  
  Dec. 26, 2008 - Jan. 25, 2009
  

Duck Hunting Limits:

Daily limit of six (6) ducks which may include no more than four (4) mallards (no more than two (2) of which may be females), one (1) pintail, three (3) mottled ducks, one (1) scaup, three (3) wood ducks, two (2) redheads and one (1) black duck. Daily limit of five (5) mergansers, which may include no more than two (2) hooded mergansers.


Arkansas Statewide Canada Goose Season for 2008 and 2009:

December 26, 2008-January 30, 2009

Limit 2



Ducks & Migratory Birds

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.

Washington Duck Hunting Season Openings





Waterfowl hunting opportunities will be similar to last year under seasons adopted by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission at a meeting here Aug. 8-9.



Washingtion Duck Hunting Season.

Under the 2008 waterfowl seasons, the statewide duck hunting season will be open from Oct. 11-15 and Oct. 18-Jan. 25. A special youth hunting weekend also is scheduled for Sept. 20-21.

As part of the hunting package, the commission closed the canvasback season this year and delayed the start of the scaup season until Nov. 1 to address population declines for those species. Special limits for hen mallard, pintail, redhead, harlequin, scoter and long-tailed duck will remain the same.

Washington Goose Hunting Season Dates.

Goose hunting seasons vary by management areas across the state, but most open Oct. 11 and run into January 2009.

The goose and duck hunting seasons approved by the commission, which sets policy for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), are based on state and federal waterfowl population estimates and guidelines.

Florida Duck Hunting Season Dates and Limits

Florida Duck Hunting Season Dates and Limits

Duck hunting season in Florida is approaching rapidly. Here is the information you will need to make your duck hunting plans in Florida.

Duck hunting season in Florida -

Open Season: First Phase: Nov. 22–30, 2008.
Second Phase: Dec. 6, 2008 – Jan. 25, 2009.
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset

Bag Limit:

Duck – The daily bag limit of ducks is six. The six-duck limit shall consist of no more than one black duck; one mottled duck (Florida duck); one fulvous whistling-duck; one pintail; two redheads; three wood ducks; one scaup*; four scoters; and four mallards (no more than two of which may be females). All other species of duck (except canvasbacks and harlequin ducks) may be taken up to the six-duck daily limit. The possession limit is two days’ bag limit.
*the scaup daily bag limit increases from one to two during the last 20 days of the season (Jan. 6– 25, 2009).
Taking or attempting to take canvasbacks or harlequin
ducks is prohibited.
Coot – The daily bag/possession limit is 15/30.
Merganser – The daily bag/possession limit is 5/10, only 2/4 of which may be hooded mergansers.

Notice -
Major changes for the 2008-2009 season The daily bag limit for wood ducks has been increased from two to three.
The daily bag limit for scaup is as follows: One bird from Nov. 22-30, 2008 and
Dec. 6, 2008 – Jan. 5, 2009 Two birds from Jan. 6 – Jan. 25, 2009
Canvasback season is closed during the 2008-2009 hunting season.
Canada goose season is now statewide.
Internal combustion motors up to 10 h.p. may now be used on Lake Miccosukee in Leon and Jefferson counties.

Florida Canada Goose season dates -

Open Season: First Phase: Nov. 22–30, 2008.

Second Phase: Dec. 1, 2008–Jan. 30, 2009.

Florida Canadian Geese Bag/Possesion Limits -

Bag Limit: The daily bag limit/possession limit is 5/10 Canada geese; Taking or attempting to take brant or geese is prohibited.

Light geese – (snow, including blue, and Ross) - Daily limit 15; there is no possession limit.

Florida Youth Waterfowl Hunting Days:

Saturday, Jan. 31 and Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. Children under the age of 16, supervised by an adult 18 years of age or older, may hunt waterfowl, coots and common moorhens. The daily bag and possession limits for waterfowl, light and Canada geese are the same as during the regular season. The daily bag/possession limit for scaup during Youth Waterfowl Hunting Days is 2/4. Only children under 16 may hunt. Adult supervisors are prohibited from hunting while accompanying youths during the Florida Youth Waterfowl Hunting Days.

Florida Waterfowl defined -

Migratory game bird hunting Migratory game birds are all wild species of ducks, geese, brant, coots, gallinules, rails, snipe, woodcock, and mourning and white-winged doves. There is no open season in Florida on brant, purple gallinule or harlequin duck. Other migratory game birds only may be taken during seasons specified in this digest or the brochure Migratory Bird Regulations For Dove, Snipe, Woodcock, Rail, Moorhen, Crow and Early Waterfowl Seasons.

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