Hunting News & Events

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Summer hunting for ‘parries' on offer

For Taranaki game bird hunters who can’t wait for the traditional May start of the hunting season to come around, Fish & Game is all set to lay on some…

  • Taranaki
  • 19/02/2018
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Hunting Ballots

Applications are invited from game bird hunters for a very limited number of hunting stands at Lake Wairarapa and Pukepuke Lagoon (Himitangi). Click here for more information.

  • Wellington
  • 19/02/2018
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2018 season for paradise shelduck

The 2018 season for paradise shelduck in Taranaki Area C ONLY  is on the following days 24th and 25th February  and 3rd and  4th March 2018.

  • Taranaki
  • 16/02/2018
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Fish & game advises locals of ‘special game bird hunt’

Auckland / Waikato Fish & Game staff are alerting locals who live north of the Auckland Harbour Bridge to a special game bird hunt that will run over a weekend.

  • Auckland/Waikato
  • 16/02/2018
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‘Biggest ever’ duck banding tally bodes well for game bird season

Duck hunters will have no shortage of birds to target when the new game bird season kicks off in May (Saturday May 5) – going by the latest Fish &…

  • 15/02/2018
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‘Biggest ever’ duck banding tally bodes well for game bird season

Duck hunters will have no shortage of birds to target when the new game bird season kicks off in May (Saturday May 5) – going by the latest Fish &…

  • Eastern
  • 15/02/2018
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Help our threatened wetlands on World Wetlands Day

New Zealanders are being urged to celebrate World Wetlands Day by doing something practical to help protect wetlands, a habitat crucial to the survival of many of this country’s wildlife…

  • 2/02/2018
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Fish & Game says public can help combat deadly bird disease

Fish & Game in Rotorua is appealing for the public’s help in dealing with any further cases of avian botulism – after receiving a report of the deadly waterfowl disease.

  • Eastern
  • 30/01/2018
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Deadly botulism outbreak kills scores of birds at Te Aroha Wastewater Treatment Plant

A Waikato district council is being accused of failing to follow its own management plan to contain the deadly bird disease botulism after dozens of waterfowl died on its wastewater…

  • 26/01/2018
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Trapping ‘how to’ hints

It’s not to early to start preparing for the duck hunting season that’s now just over three months away.

  • 18/01/2018
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