Summer hunting for paradise shelduck
- Taranaki
- 7/02/2025
With its recent game bird trend counts all tallied up, Taranaki Fish & Game is pleased to confirm the 2025 special summer hunting season for paradise shelduck.
The special season provides seven days of hunting spread over three weekends from Saturday 22nd February through to and including Taranaki Anniversary Day on Monday 10th March.
The hunting season is only for paradise shelduck and only in game management Area C, which extends from the north bank of the Waitotara River to the Mohakatino River and includes all of the Stratford district.
Hunting hours on each of the seven days will be from 6.30am until 8pm. The daily bag limit has been set at 10 parries per hunter.
Fish & Game Senior Field Officer Allen Stancliff says the aim is to disperse the ducks, moving them back to their home territories after they’ve gathered together for their annual moult.
"This reduces the potential for mobs to cause damage to chicory crops, recovering hay paddocks and areas of new grass, before the main game bird hunting season gets underway in May."
Hunters who want to take part in the special season must hold a 2024 game bird hunting licence and obtain a $5 permit from Fish & Game or a local game bird licence agent.
The permit is free to land occupiers who want to hunt their own land, but they still need to hold a permit.
Hunters who didn’t purchase a 2024 game licence can still participate in the special season by purchasing day licences on-line at www.fishandgame.org.nz
“This is a great opportunity for some enjoyable summer hunting that helps our farmers – all we ask is that hunters stick to the rules, including that there is no hunting within 100m of any urban sewage oxidation pond.”
“Also please remember that hunters need permission to hunt on private land – don’t forget to ask the landowner.”
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Allen Stancliff
Taranaki Fish & Game
027 263 9152