Closing pheasant farm just sad.

[_X7]

25 minutes ago, madeinuk said:

Maybe some of the saved money could be used to buy teddy bears, coloring books and pacifiers for the antis.  

Distracted this way it would keep them out of the woods and fields - a huge win for NJ hunters.

We should be so lucky, Oliver

[Fishman]

Appears  the state is looking to privatize. 

[Bonefreak]

Mite sound a lil crazy, but NJDFW Bureau of Lands Management should "manage" the WMAs to enhance the carrying capacities of the acreage for small game like rabbits and woodcock instead of using the WMAs as a cash cow for the farmer/lease program!!!  The bonus would be that many more types of wildlife would also benefit from this theory.....with the key word being MANAGEMENT!!!

[Mink]

It seems every year Fish and Game has less to do, they probably love this!

[CatchinDeers243]

Just a shame.... Trying to remain optimistic that the new birds will be better

[Batsto]

Wow! $200,000 savings. The democrats will give the savings to illegals aliens so they can get a free pheasant stamp and hunting licence. 

[Bucksnbows]

7 hours ago, CatchinDeers243 said:

Just a shame.... Trying to remain optimistic that the new birds will be better

You've already been hunting them for two years....

[Bucksnbows]

3 hours ago, Batsto said:

Wow! $200,000 savings. The democrats will give the savings to illegals aliens so they can get a free pheasant stamp and hunting licence. 

Nope, dedicated hunter and angler funds.  This is less a "savings" than controlling what would be several hundred thousand dollars to comply each year with new federal regulations.  I don't understand why so many are struggling with that.  Not picking on you, Batsto.  It's just that whenever the Division does something different, regardless of reason, they are somehow selling out the hunter and angler.  That is certainly not always true as is the case here.  The choices are no more stocked pheasants ever again or the state buying them from the private sector and the stocking program continuing as normal.   

[Bucksnbows]

21 hours ago, stratocaster said:

Again M66, straight on point.  Where is the $200k savings going?  They said the same thing about only producing rainbow trout at the hatchery, that it was so much less $ to rear rainbows.  Where did the savings go?   It is not a win to the hunter or fishermen because we pay the same or more and get less which is the exact opposite of the private sector. 

Nobody ever said raising rainbow trout was less expensive than raising browns or brookies.  Not sure where you heard that?  There is no difference.  Pequest issues are 100% linked to the furunculosis outbreak and nothing more.  If the browns and brookies didn't see massive disease outbreak, the hatchery would still be raising all three species to this day.  

[Batsto]

We love Chuckers. Looks like the division of wildlife have been using new math all along.....cheating???