On Tuesday, the province announced a
Nathalie Michaud, president of NBWF, said they have been requesting a hunting season for nearly 20 years due to the growing wild turkey population.
“In 2018, we asked government to more-or-less do a study to see where the population was at in the province,” Michaud said in a phone interview.
“We’re happy that was done because, of course, we want new hunting opportunities but we want to make sure that there’s enough turkeys to do a sustainable hunt.”
Preliminary results of a recent study by the University of New Brunswick indicate there is a healthy population of wild turkeys in southwestern New Brunswick that can be managed through hunting, according to a provincial government news release.
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