Adaptive Harvest Management: Considerations for the 1998 Duck Hunting Season

摘要

The process of setting waterfowl hunting regulations is conducted annually in theUnited States. This process involves a number of meetings where the status of waterfowl is reviewed by the agencies responsible for setting hunting regulations. In addition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servie (USFWS) holds public hearings and publishes proposed regulations in the Federal Register to allow public comment. This document is part of a series of reports intended to support development of harvest regulations for the 1998 hunting season. Specifically, this report in intended to provide waterfowl managers and the public with information about the use of adaptive harvest management for setting duck-hunting regulations in the United States. This report provides the most current data, analyses, and decision-making protocols. However, adaptive management is a dynamic process, and information presented herein may differ from that published previously. Moreover, the set of regulatory alternatives has not yet been finalized for the 1998 hunting season and, therefore, harvest strategies presented in this in this report should be considered preliminary.