Resident Moose Hunt Extended on Lower Yukon River

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BETHEL – The Alaska Department of Fish & Game will use its emergency order authority to extend the moose hunting season in Unit 18.
The Alaska Board of Game adopted an extended winter season for the Lower Yukon River hunt area below Mountain Village in Unit 18 at its regular meeting in Nome during November 2009. To allow hunting in the current regulatory year, the Board approved an emergency order announcement of the extended Dec 20-Feb 28 season to be issued by the department. Residents from the affected area requested that the season be effective during the current winter season rather than waiting until the next regulatory year which is the normal process for changes in regulation.

The extended season will allow resident hunters to take any moose during the winter season of Dec 20-Feb 28 in the portion of Unit 18 north of a line from Cape Romanzof to Kuzilvak Mt. to Mountain Village, excluding all Yukon River drainages upstream from Mt. Village. Please note that if a person has harvested a moose in the fall 2009 or winter 2010 season they are not eligible to harvest a moose in this extended season

ADF&G biologists have determined that additional hunting opportunity is biologically acceptable because the hunt area of approximately 1,100 square miles has an estimated 3,300 moose and the moose population there has been growing at about 27 percent per year.

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