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For additional information on federal regulations, contact: Senior Resident Agent, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Elizabeth, NJ 07201; 1-908-787-1321 Closed Season: No person shall take migratory game birds during the closed season. Waterfowl hunting is not permitted on Sundays. Shooting or Falconry Hours: No person shall take migratory game birds except during the hours open to shooting and falconry as prescribed. Daily Bag Limit: No person shall take in any one day more than one daily bag limit. Field Possession Limit: No person shall possess more than one daily bag limit while in the field or returning from the field to one’s car, hunting camp, home, etc. Wanton Waste: All migratory game birds killed or crippled shall be retrieved, if possible, and retained in the custody of the hunter in the field. Tagging: No person shall give, put or leave any migratory game birds at any place or in the custody of another person unless the birds are tagged by the hunter with the following information: the hunter’s signature and address; the total number of birds involved, by species; and the dates such birds were killed. No person or business shall receive or have in custody any migratory game birds belonging to another person unless such birds are tagged. Possession of Live Birds: Wounded birds reduced to possession shall be immediately killed and included in the daily bag limit. Dressing: No person shall completely field dress any migratory game bird (except doves) and then transport the birds from the field. The head or one fully feathered wing must remain attached to all such birds while being transported from the field to one’s home or to a migratory bird preservation facility. Nontoxic Shot, Shot Size: NONTOXIC SHOT must be used while hunting ducks, geese and/ or coots in Pennsylvania; the possession of lead shot while hunting ducks, geese and/or coots is unlawful. Shot for waterfowl hunting may not be larger than T size. Nontoxic shot types approved by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service are: Steel shot, steel shot with coating (1% of either copper, nickel, zinc chromat, or zinc chloride), bismuth-tin, tungsteniron, tungsten-polymer, tungsten-matrix and tungsten-nickel (HEVI-SHOT), tungsten-bronzeiron shot, tungsten-tin-bismuth, and tungsten-tin-iron-nickel. Decoys: The use of decoys powered or operated by batteries or any other source of electricity are unlawful for use in Pennsylvania. Baiting: The use of any sort of artificial substance or product as bait or an attractant is prohibited. Hunter Ed Youth Essay Contest deadline nears OCTOBER 31 marks the deadline for this year’s Hunter Education Youth Essay Contest. This year’s theme is, “How Can the Game Commission and I Work Together for Wildlife?” and like last year, there will be only one division, open to those 12 through 16 years of age, not 18. Entrants must be Pennsylvania residents, and also must have successfully completed an accredited hunter education course and possess a current hunting or furtaker license. Grand prize is sponsored by Safari Club International; first, second and third prizes by Dick’s Sporting Goods; and fourth prize by Sightron. As in past years, all entrants will receive a Working Together for Wildlife patch. See page 81 of the 2008-09 Digest for complete details. OCTOBER 2008 43

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