Agreed 100%. Its been a few years since I've been there, but have been there many many times since 1970. Fished Swordfish all around the island, harbored in Cat harbor and at Avalon. Played golf. Hiked. Seen many more goats than deer. I wasn't aware deer weren't native, but they are to the eco system of CA in general as they are all over CA. Any Island native species that has lasted the past 100 ++ years with goats, boar, bison and the deer can continue to handle the deer. They can reduce the herds through hunting and don't need to hunt them to 0. Sounds like a Gov Nuisance plan to just F things up.
Let's say they charge $150 per tag (which is very low but reasonable). This would produce $300,000 for fish and game. That doesn't include the dollars you mentioned for tourism. Let's also assume the average amount of meat each deer yields is 90 lbs. That's 180,000 lbs of consumable meat wasted. Lots of lost opportunities here.
I couldn't agree more. One of the major obstacles seems to be the high-cost barrier. At $200, plus the prerequisite of already having a CA Deer tag, and an additional $65 for Catalina Island Conservancy's membership, the total investment can quickly soar. For non-residents, this inflates the tag price to nearly $600, coupled with a limited draw list, making it inaccessible for many. To address this, I propose a reduction in prices, ( I like your $150 ), to make it more accessible. Additionally, waiving the membership fee and expanding the number of available tags could open up this opportunity to a broader range of hunters while solving cleanup and issues of food waste.
I'm fine with people hunting the deer in ethical ways like the others. But the question I have is, if they are going to shoot the deer and leave the bodies where they are. Won't that lead to diseases that can come about from the bodies rotting? Will it encourage more flies and other bugs to come and spread those diseases to other plants and animals? I'm not a hunter and I don't know how the island is set up to cope with things like that. But I was curious if they were going to take that into account?
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Ridiculous, open it up to hunters and they will pay YOU to do it rather than pay out a bunch of money for a company to do it.
Bingo.
Agreed 100%. Its been a few years since I've been there, but have been there many many times since 1970. Fished Swordfish all around the island, harbored in Cat harbor and at Avalon. Played golf. Hiked. Seen many more goats than deer. I wasn't aware deer weren't native, but they are to the eco system of CA in general as they are all over CA. Any Island native species that has lasted the past 100 ++ years with goats, boar, bison and the deer can continue to handle the deer. They can reduce the herds through hunting and don't need to hunt them to 0. Sounds like a Gov Nuisance plan to just F things up.
Love this comment and I completely agree.
It's California...what did you expect? Logic and commonsense???
Let's say they charge $150 per tag (which is very low but reasonable). This would produce $300,000 for fish and game. That doesn't include the dollars you mentioned for tourism. Let's also assume the average amount of meat each deer yields is 90 lbs. That's 180,000 lbs of consumable meat wasted. Lots of lost opportunities here.
I couldn't agree more.
One of the major obstacles seems to be the high-cost barrier. At $200, plus the prerequisite of already having a CA Deer tag, and an additional $65 for Catalina Island Conservancy's membership, the total investment can quickly soar.
For non-residents, this inflates the tag price to nearly $600, coupled with a limited draw list, making it inaccessible for many.
To address this, I propose a reduction in prices, ( I like your $150 ), to make it more accessible. Additionally, waiving the membership fee and expanding the number of available tags could open up this opportunity to a broader range of hunters while solving cleanup and issues of food waste.
those deer have been pharting way to much, green house gases you know
We should probably all start eating soy and GMO corn anyways.
Same with me!
Any idea who the gov is contracting for this / when this is going to occur?
White Buffalo Inc. It might not happen depending on what CA Fish and Game Decides to do.
I'm fine with people hunting the deer in ethical ways like the others. But the question I have is, if they are going to shoot the deer and leave the bodies where they are. Won't that lead to diseases that can come about from the bodies rotting? Will it encourage more flies and other bugs to come and spread those diseases to other plants and animals? I'm not a hunter and I don't know how the island is set up to cope with things like that. But I was curious if they were going to take that into account?
They are arguing it'd be good for the landscape / soil. I'm not so sure.
You're making too much sense for the leadership in CA.
It’s California, who the fuq cares!