Shooters reject ban call
Border Watch, Page: 4. Tuesday, 9 June, 2009
Shooters help improve the environment through helping provide habitat and controlling pests, according to Kongorong hunter Chris Wright.
He said calls by the Greens to ban the duck season -published in The Border Watch on Friday - due to low bird numbers should be rejected.
“There is nothing wrong with a feed of wild duck,” Mr Wright said.
“Everyone was a hunter and gatherer before supermarkets.” Mr Wright welcomed the declaration of the first duck season in three years, which ended last weekend, after the government had previously stalled hunting due to low duck numbers.
“It was fairly quiet compared to a normal year, but great to get out there and have a go again,” he said, adding some young dogs had never experienced a duck hunt.
“It was great to get a season.” He said field and game clubs were often involved in erecting nesting boxes and other work at breeding sites to protect duck populations.
“You put back in what you get out,” he said.
“I don’t think the Greens understand that and there are still a lot of people who do a lot of shooting in our area “Up north there are thousands of ducks and when it is wet again here the birds will turn up in the tens of thousands.”
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