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Welcome to the June edition of Both Barrels, the gamebird hunting newsletter from Fish & Game NZ keeping you up to date with all that is happening around the country.
Just published on the Fish & Game website:
Federated Farmers Press Release on Canada Geese
Fact Sheet on South Island Canada Geese Management
Upcoming in many regions this weekend - The Shortest Day Duck Hunt.
In the meantime, the Fish & Game Gamebird Food Festival continues - has anyone cooked your goose?
 A must-have for all gamebird hunters: Introduction to Gamebird Hunting Pack
Fish & Game NZ have developed this excellent pack in order to assist new and returning hunters.
The pack includes two DVDs - one on duck hunting, one on food safety, a CD of where to hunt and a 28 page booklet full of useful information on guns and ammo, maimais and the like.
All this for only $5 - available from your local F&G regional office, Hunting and Fishing New Zealand and other good hunting stores around the country. More
Fish & Game 2009 Gamebird Food Festival
The 2009 Gamebird Food Festival restaurants have been busy with hunters bringing a variety of gamebirds
Whether it’s a dinner for two, or an evening out for mates and friends, there are menus and banquets to delight. With a discount for provision of your gamebird meat, you can enjoy the night out, perhaps even lash out on some excellent wines and desserts.
Many of our gamebird festival chefs will design a series of dishes for your gamebird catch, and others will serve your gamebirds in three or four ways for a minimum party of diners. There’s a special gamebird cooking masterclass and degustation dinner on the 27 June in Christchurch and a class to learn how to expertly pluck and prepare your gamebirds in Kati Kati.
Follow the links to see the menus in your region:
North Island
South Island
We are now well into our season and hunters appear to have done well.
Initial hunter survey results show that northlands opening weekend was comparable with 2008 when the region experienced one of its best seasons for some time. The Saturday hunt was great for most with favourable weather and ideal shooting conditions. Sunday however was the opposite with clear skies and warm sun. More
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Pheasants: It has been a bumper season for ringnecks and more people could be out taking advantage of this. Hot spots are anywhere that there's acorns. Even if they've fallen from the tree some time ago, the birds will still be scratching in the leaf litter for fragments. More
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Overall the short of the hunting season in the Hawke’s Bay Region was probably better than we might have expected. As we started off the season with drought conditions the regions waterfowl were more concentrated to those areas that still held water. Those hunters who put in the effort to find these spots all did well during opening and through the rest of the season. More
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The main waterfowl season in the Wellington region only has a couple of weeks to go – ending on 28 June 2009. Overall the season has been good in the Manawatu, and a bit patchy in the Wairarapa area – but hunters are generally having good time with mates and younger hunters. More
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Game Harvest Survey results reveal that the 2009 Opening Weekend was on average the best it has been for several years. More
More hunted waterfowl habitat created using biodiversity advice service and Cobb mitigation funding
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Fish & Game have been busy performing annual Canada Goose surveys. Initial observations suggest numbers are slightly up on last year. During the aerial Goose counts it is always hard not to miss the numerous flocks of mallards camped up on river beds. More
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North Canterbury - No report this month
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The Central South Island Regional Council provides a three month duck hunting season, May, June, and July, to provide maximum opportunity for licenced hunters. For many the duck hunting season entails two days, opening weekend . True most ducks are shot on the opening weekend however there is an ample resource out there and although hunting pressure is an important population leveller the regions dabbling duck population is on an upward trend suggesting that hunter harvest can be increased. More
2009 Waterfowl Season Opening Weekend
2009 Great Canada Goose Hunting Competition
2009 Waterfowl Season Opening Weekend Ranger Activity
Get your birds ready for dinner
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Keen duck hunters will have noticed the sun rising fairly late at this time of the year and slipping away rather early so its no surprise to learn that the shortest day is nearly upon us. It fact it happens to be this weekend and to celebrate this annual phenomenon, Fish & Game are promoting an event to encourage hunters to make the most productive use of the few hours of daylight available. More
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Southland - Calling all duck hunters! - Shortest Day Duck Hunt Weekend - 20/ 21 June
The bursts of sleet and hail currently slapping my office window remind me that hunting conditions are somewhat different at this stage of the season than the calm, sunny and settled weather we experienced over opening weekend! Well, this coming weekend’s ‘shortest day duck hunt’ provides a great opportunity to get out there and have a go in conditions that should prove more ‘traditional’ for duck hunting! More
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