DEC and Waterfowl Hunter Task Force Seeking Input

[Steve D]

on 2021-2022 Canada Goose and Special Season Dates

DEC and the Waterfowl Hunter Task Forces are seeking input on your preferences for Canada goose, brant, scaup, youth, and military hunting season dates. Season frameworks for each zone:

• In the West Central, East Central, Northeast, Lake Champlain, and Hudson Valley are anticipated to be 30 days long with a one-bird bag limit;
• In the South Zone where very few migratory geese are harvested will remain 80 days with a 5-bird bag limit.
• The Long Island goose zone season lengths and bag limits will remain the same length as last year.
• Brant season is expected to be 50 days long with a two-bird bag limit.
• The scaup season will be a “hybrid season” similar to 2020-21, where the bag limit will be two per day for 20 days and a one-bird limit for the remaining 40 days.

Please provide your feedback to: [email protected]. Comments will be forwarded to the appropriate task force members. Be sure to include the waterfowl hunting zone that your comments apply to in the e-mail subject line.