Retired moose biologist Alan Bisset has spent the past 18 months chronicling the reasons Ontario’s moose population continues to decline and offered the province a seven-point plan on how to fix the situation
There is an immediate and urgent need to change the way Ontario manages the provincial moose population before the resource faces irreparable damage.
I consider the need for change to be immediate and urgent. I can provide other evidence to suggest that the population will never rebuild with the current strategy because of density dependent mortality. Killing success will increase faster than the population can grow. First is the use of management units east and west of Algonquin Park to demonstrate that controlling calf harvest is important. I absolutely agree with limited calf harvest based on the successful programs in Norway and Sweden. The evidence presented by BGMAC is faulty at best, and part of the conclusion is incorrect. I provided the following feedback to the director.
I have asked for peer-reviewed papers to support the premise that low calf harvest will lead to population growth. I have not had a response. 1: In the absence of sound scientific evidence, go back to proven age — sex structures in the harvest — roughly 50 per cent bulls, 15 to 20 per cent cows and 30 to 35 per cent calves. If MNRF really does use adaptive management, they should try different strategies in different Moose Management Zones.
4: Eliminate three application units. With an effective allocation process, proper harvest planning and high TFRs there will be no tags after the first allocation step. Because hunters do not have to claim awarded tags, 10,122 tags were left for the second allocation step in 2022. In 2021, 4,803 applicants entered the allocation process for their second choice WMU. Of these, 2,654 were awarded a tag, but only 1,573 were claimed.
In a different letter, I asked for the land area in the “moose range”. When I was working, that meant WMUs with an open season but excluding the “far north” . I was somewhat surprised with the following answer: “Your question is a good one about ‘core moose range’, I’m sure Patrick will have a more detailed response, but generally speaking the ministry refers to Cervid Ecological Zones C and D when talking about core/main moose range in the province.
He states that “changes have been well received and welcomed…”. That certainly isn’t the feedback I’ve heard. Again, this shows that MNRF has its head in dark places and are more concerned with hunter satisfaction than with the declining moose population or the socioeconomic and ecological benefits derived thereof.
To suggest that change “is not something the ministry is able to implement…” certainly suggests to me the director has little understanding of what the ministry can do. It appears to me that they are just incapable or uninterested in making change, even if it is at the expense of the resource and the people of Ontario.
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