Ontario Moose Management Review - Up-date

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 MNRF  Moose Management Review listening sessions held in May and early June.

 

Over 600 interested hunters, members of the public and organizations attended these sessions to share their perspectives to develop a path forward. Over 2,000 individuals provided comments through the paper or online Moose Management Review survey.

 

BGMAC submitted a report to the Minister in July containing 15 recommendations. The recommendations were intended to improve moose management with a focus on sustainability and making tag allocation simpler, fairer and more consistent. BGMAC made some additional recommendations to address other concerns they heard from hunters. BGMAC’s report with recommendations has been released and is available at https://www.ontario.ca/page/big-game-management-advisory-committee-report-moose-management-review.

 

MNRF is now proposing changes based on the BGMAC recommendations. There are two proposals posted on the Environmental Registry of Ontario for public commenting; one addressing moose and one addressing wolf/coyote hunting regulations in northern Ontario. 

 

The proposals are available at https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-0405 (moose) and https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-0406 (wolf/coyote) and we invite you to comment through the registry website any time between now and September 26, 2019. 

 

Thank you again for attending the listening sessions and providing your input.