Duck Hunting Season
In this stretch of years the hunting pressure more than doubled. 448,204 duck stamps were sold in the all-time low year or 1935, and 1,487,029 in 1944. Then came World War II with another decline in hunting pressure and a rest for the ducks. But overshooting and the pressure of man made themselves felt again soon after the war. Ducks went into another tailspin. In 1945 the United States Fish and Wildlife Service estimated 20,000,000 fewer ducks than in the previous year. By 1946 the duck population had fallen to a total of 80,000,000 a decline of 45,000,000 from the estimated 125,000,000 population of 1944. So the 1946 season was cut to 45 days with limits of 7 ducks daily 14 in possession. Further reductions were necessary in 1947, with a 30-day season and four and eight limits in the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways where the greatest waterfowl declines had been observed. Once again man’s self-imposed restrictions and the weather came to the rescue of the ducks. There was a slight improvement in the waterfowl population in 1949 and a 40-day season was permitted. But the limit was held to four and eight that year, and in 1950, when a temporary duck setback was recorded, the season was cut to 35 days.
Then weather intervened again in the form of good rains. In my 1952 Sports Afield survey of ducks in western Canada I reported the best hatch in 15 years. It was spectacular in Alberta, Saskatchewan and northern Manitoba. So the season was extended. By 1953 the United States Fish and Wildlife Service estimated the duck population at 160,750,000. In the fall of 1954 heavy rains provided conditions for a real boom in waterfowl the following year. The early spring and ideal nesting conditions of 1955 accentuated the boom. There was water everywhere, western Canada was in great shape for waterfowl and there was a great hatch of ducks.
The season was liberalized in 1955, with an all-time high sale of 2,181,566 duck stamps. Sales held pretty well through the next year, then went up to 2,332,014 in 1957.
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