Season dates and proposals

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Brent Bryant
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Season dates and proposals

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LITTLE ROCK – It may be mid-summer in Arkansas, but fall hunting was on the agenda for last week’s meeting of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. During the meeting, the Commission set the state’s dove season dates. Commissioners also heard a proposal for the late migratory bird seasons.

Early migratory bird season dates:

Mourning dove and Eurasian collared-dove
Sept. 6-Oct. 25 and Dec. 20-Jan. 8

Teal season
Sept. 13-28


AGFC Waterfowl Program Coordinator Luke Naylor presented the Commission with the late migratory season proposals.

Proposed duck season dates:
Nov. 22-30
Dec. 4-Dec. 23
Dec. 26-Jan. 25
Youth Hunt: Jan. 31-Feb. 1

Canada, White-fronted, snow, blue and Ross’s goose seasons
Nov. 13-Jan. 25

Snow, blue and Ross’s goose conservation order
Oct. 11-Nov. 12, Jan. 26-30 and Feb. 2-April 25

One regulation proposal included a restriction on the closing time of certain wildlife management areas and lakes during waterfowl season. If approved, the proposal would require the public to be off these areas after 1 p.m. each day and from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. each morning. The restriction would be in place from the first day of the first segment of the regular duck season until the last day of the last segment of regular duck season on specific WMAs. This would not apply to the last three days of the last regular duck season and the youth waterfowl hunt when access is allowed from 4 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily. Exceptions to allow afternoon access (such as archery deer hunting) to specific waterbodies within WMAs were included in the proposal. The late migratory bird season dates and regulations will be approved at the August commission meeting.
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