is poaching real in your neck of the woods?
- Thread starter WhelanLad
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All depends were you are located.
Yes they hunt there own seasons. But for you to say the deer have been wipped out on the rez is not true at all
I hunt with some off them guys and there are more deer on the rez then the rest of Ontario for sure..i run dogs for coyotes with them and seen the numbers of deer for myself...
In my area there is lots of poaching, trespassing, pit-lamping and so on. The worst is during deer season, but it does happen throughout all the seasons and all species.
Something about deer hunting and big bucks that turns otherwise "normal law-abiding people" into ethical idiots that do not care about the laws or conservation or the rights of property owners...
Many are people that come up to our area of the province from other areas in the province that do not take the time to learn the local requirements, read the maps or get permission from local land owners before they go traipsing around farmland. But there are a surprising number of locals that ignore the laws too.
Something about deer hunting and big bucks that turns otherwise "normal law-abiding people" into ethical idiots that do not care about the laws or conservation or the rights of property owners...
Many are people that come up to our area of the province from other areas in the province that do not take the time to learn the local requirements, read the maps or get permission from local land owners before they go traipsing around farmland. But there are a surprising number of locals that ignore the laws too.
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- Prince Albert, Sk
Happens here all the time, I'm sure only a small portion of them actually make it to the media.
https://panow.com/2012/04/27/poaching-remains-an-issue-in-saskatchewan/
https://panow.com/2017/03/09/2-sask-men-fined-3k-for-poaching-hunting-offences/
https://panow.com/2020/02/10/gronlid-man-fined-more-than-36000-for-wildlife-trafficking/
https://panow.com/2017/05/01/graphic-photo-conservation-group-seeks-leads-in-suspected-moose-poaching/
That's just the first 4 that came up on the search.
The ministry counted a total of 42 moose that were shot in various areas of the province and left to waste — double the cases they normally get in a given year.
Okay, fair enough, but treeplanters, loggers, grader operators, surveyors, miners, mushroom pickers, forestry workers, prospectors you name them, they are out in the woods too.
I know poaching goes on, I'm not denying that, but stories of truckloads of deer carcasses heading to market persist and there has never been a proven incident.
I know that in the 80s or 90s, Echo Bay Mining was getting tons of flak over their Lupin Mine winter road from greenies and FN. The main attack was the caribou the commies were accusing EB of killing with their supply trucks. They sent a flat bed truck out from the mine and collected a large number of shot caribou from the sides of their winter road, almost all were unharvested except for their tongues. They drove that truck south to show who was responsible for the caribou road deaths.
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In the NWT I've seen just the fetus removed.
I’m sure we have some, but It’s not highly visible and I want to say not a huge deal in these parts. I don’t consider trespassing a poaching issue. It’s a lack of respect issue. Most of the trespassers are at least hunting during open season and they buy tags, they are just being dicks entering land they don’t have permission on.
We have moose shot and sold in assorted restaurants in Edmonton. Had a guy ask if I had spotted much early am, I said no. He had 7 head of game in back of his truck. Eyes were all glassed over. Anothe was shooting cow elk in the spring for food for his dogs. So yea we have a problem here.
Poaching and trespassing is a constant issue around here in the Shilo ranges, especially since they were closed to legitimate hunting a decade or so ago. Range control frequently comes across carcasses and piles of guts, and on the odd occasion exercising units have reported up seeing civilian pattern vehicles in the impact area (either abandoned or fleeing the area).
It's bad enough that there's been talk of tasking UAV's during hunting seasons to monitor the area.
As for farm land, I know my friend that lives south of Portage (the land has been in the family for generations) has an agreement with neighbors to watch out for each other. When we were hunting out there last fall, he'd received phone calls from his uncle on the next property because we'd taken my truck and he didn't recognize it.
It's bad enough that there's been talk of tasking UAV's during hunting seasons to monitor the area.
As for farm land, I know my friend that lives south of Portage (the land has been in the family for generations) has an agreement with neighbors to watch out for each other. When we were hunting out there last fall, he'd received phone calls from his uncle on the next property because we'd taken my truck and he didn't recognize it.
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In one Alberta zone between Cold Lake and La Corey two local brothers bragged about taking thirty moose in one year from this area ringed with swamps. Yeah they were not charged for poaching. I am going to let you guess the important details.
