Help needed! # of hunters (specifically upland birds if possible) in your Province?

[Pudelpointer]

Hi CGN'ers.

I am in the middle of a funding application and am hoping to add some data on the number of upland bird hunters - or total hunters in provinces like BC where you can hunt grouse, etc. on just your standard license.

Links to gov. website pages with specific #'s would be awesome.

I found the AB gov's page that listed the total # of licenses sold of each type, but now I can not find it.

Any help is greatly appreciated.



Ian

 

[Pudelpointer]

Nobody? Anybody?

 

[JohnC]

Try the ofah ( www.ofah.org ) for contact info. someone there should have the number of Ontario licenses ( small game only required in Ontario for grouse, ie your basic license).

have you contacted the ruffed grouse society?

 

[Pudelpointer]

Thanks JohnC, good leads.

 

[Norton]

Albertas Hunting for Tomorrow web site might have some stats of interest.
http://www.huntingfortomorrow.com/index.htm

 

[Cinch]

In SK license sales are summarized at the following http://www.environment.gov.sk.ca/licences/

In MB license sales by species are broke out in the Annual Report http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/annual-reports/conservation/index.html

 

[Pudelpointer]

Cinch, Norton and John C, thanks, that is the info I was looking for.

Anyone know for BC, Quebec, the territories and the maritimes?

 

[zebra26]

Regarding Quebec.
This data is from an Access to Information request made in 2000.
This was the first time the data regarding certificates was tabulated according to the Quebec government.
I don't know about bird hunting, in Quebec the hunter's certificate is broken down into the following catagories:
Code F for firearms
Code A for bows
Code AF for firearms and bows
there is also a Code P for trapping

At the time of the request there was a total of 998, 392 certificates and they broke down in the following manner
Code F: 843 825
Code A: 79 807
Code AF: 74 760

I have a code AF certificate for both bow and firearm hunting. I think it may be possible that some may only have the "A" certification but I cannot give you any numbers.

Last time I checked there is now a course required for turkey hunting but I don't know if there is a Code to go with that.

 

[Pudelpointer]

Z26, does your license cover upland game birds, or is a separate tag/license required?

Thanks for posting what you had BTW.