{"id":11899,"date":"2016-10-31T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T18:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=11899"},"modified":"2017-04-14T15:09:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:09:03","slug":"youth-waterfowl-hunting-days-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2016\/10\/31\/youth-waterfowl-hunting-days-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Waterfowl Hunting Days Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Maximum Age to Participate Increased to 16 Years Old<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/684\/22301984545_8f8215dc8b_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/684\/22301984545_8f8215dc8b_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a>Young Marylanders can hone their hunting skills with the help of an experienced adult during two\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/Pages\/JrHunters.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Youth<\/u> Waterfowl Hunt Days<\/a> Nov. 5 and Feb. 11, 2017. Those 16 years of age or younger may hunt ducks, geese, mergansers and coots on public and private land these two days when aided by a qualified adult.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/whats-new-2016-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">New this year<\/a>, the maximum age for participating has been increased from 15 to 16 years of age.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a day when the focus is entirely on our youth hunters and waterfowlers,\u201d said Wildlife and Heritage Service Director Paul Peditto. \u201cIt is a great opportunity to refresh the lessons learned in hunter safety and engage young people \u2013 Maryland&#8217;s\u00a0future hunters and trappers \u2013 in waterfowling such as placing decoys, calling birds and hunting with a retriever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All junior hunters and their adult mentors must possess Maryland hunting licenses. Youth hunters must purchase a Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp but do not need to purchase a federal duck stamp if under 16 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/migratory-game-bird-hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\">bag limits<\/a> for the hunting\u00a0days are the same as the regular seasons except:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One black duck may be taken;<\/li>\n<li>Two Canada geese may be taken when hunting within the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/Documents\/Goose_Hunt_Zones_Map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic Population <u>Canada Goose<\/u> Hunting Zone<\/a>; and<\/li>\n<li>Five Canada geese may be taken when hunting within the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/Documents\/Goose_Hunt_Zones_Map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic Flyway <u>Resident<\/u> Population <u>Canada Goose<\/u> Hunting Zone<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Licenses, stamps and permits may be purchased\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/compass.dnr.maryland.gov\/dnrcompassportal\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>, by phone at 855-855-3906, at a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/service_centers.aspx\">department service center<\/a> or at any one of the over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/service_agents.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">250 agents<\/a> statewide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maximum Age to Participate Increased to 16 Years Old Young Marylanders can hone their hunting skills with the help of an experienced adult during two\u00a0Youth Waterfowl Hunt Days Nov. 5 and Feb. 11, 2017. Those 16 years of age or younger may hunt ducks, geese, mergansers and coots on public and private land these two<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2016\/10\/31\/youth-waterfowl-hunting-days-announced\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,3172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11901,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899\/revisions\/11901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}