Pennsylvania Game News - November 2017 - 51
2016-17
SMALL GAME & FURBEARER HARVESTS
Small-game harvests increased for
five of nine small-game species in 201617. But for those that dropped - grouse,
squirrel, woodcock and porcupine - harvests were at all-time lows.
The Game Commission recently released its annual estimates small-game
and furbearer harvests, and hunter and
trapper participation, which are assembled through to the Game Commission's
surveying of hunters and trappers.
In providing reliable long-term data,
these surveys inform management decisions for many species.
Three separate questionnaires were
mailed to random samples of Pennsylvania hunters and trappers following the
Estimated harvest by species
Year
Rabbit
Grouse
Squirrel
Pheasanta
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
254,328
230,849
230,417
177,588
209,488
52,289
40,308
34,848
28,434
22,581
643,382
573,538
467,888
460,311
397,658
198,704
220,752
177,068
205,366
221,588
a
conclusion of the 2016-17 small-game
hunting and furtaking seasons, and the
response rate was higher than 50 percent
for each.
Game-Take questionnaires were
mailed to 18,001 license buyers, and
9,520 were completed and returned. Furtaker questionnaires were sent to 8,000
and returned by 4,478 individuals. And
1,328 of 2,500 Mentored Youth Hunter
questionnaires were returned.
More than 40 percent of respondents
completed surveys online.
Full reports of Game-Take and Furtaker surveys, including results back to
1983, are available at www.pgc.pa.gov.
Click on Information & Resources, then
Woodcock Hare
8,420
7,116
8,691
7,293
6,684
690
620
601
738
2,015
Woodchuck Crow
844,515
959,879
560,120
491,503
535,404
Porcupine
289,833 13,596
140,997 15,213
261,374 12,400
65,028 7,867
123,601 7,117
Estimates exclude harvest on shooting preserves.
Estimated number of hunters
Year
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
a
Rabbit
94,761
91,628
74,528
73,286
62,378
Grouse
Squirrel
Pheasanta
67,544
66,113
50,925
49,726
40,094
150,036
145,992
120,538
117,277
100,482
87,341
92,091
80,280
86,349
74,953
5,058
6,706
4,496
5,872
4,402
2,237
2,410
4,796
3,434
3,014
Woodcock
14.9
17.5
34.4
30.5
44.3
Hare
15.8
14.8
7.4
12.9
25.6
Woodchuck Crow
99,191
109,559
68,088
63,463
62,628
Porcupine
25,817
25,271
17,741
13,352
13,844
2,237
8,666
6,128
6,209
5,011
Crow
168.2
100.9
256.9
71.0
151.0
Porcupine
43.0
54.2
24.7
41.2
50.4
Estimates exclude number of hunters on shooting preserves.
Estimated harvest per 100 hunter-days
Year Rabbit
2012 51.5
2013 51.4
2014 62.7
2015 49.7
2016 63.7
a
Woodcock Hare
Grouse
16.8
13.1
13.5
11.5
12.1
Squirrel
81.5
80.5
71.9
84.5
77.7
Pheasanta
51.0
51.6
45.0
52.1
60.4
Woodchuck
86.4
83.0
77.2
73.0
79.1
Estimates exclude effort on shooting preserves.
NOVEMBER 2017
51
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