{"id":9036,"date":"2015-09-01T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=9036"},"modified":"2017-04-14T16:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:09:06","slug":"september-teal-season-to-open-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/09\/01\/september-teal-season-to-open-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Teal Season to Open September 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/teal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4319\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/teal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"teal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/teal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/teal-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/Pages\/SeptemberTealSeason.aspx\">teal hunting season<\/a> in Maryland will open on Wednesday, September 16, 2015 and continue through Wednesday, September 30, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Hunters should note several important aspects of the September teal season:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shooting hours are one half-hour before sunrise to sunset<\/li>\n<li>The daily bag limit is six teal (blue or green-winged)<\/li>\n<li>The possession limit for teal is three times the daily bag limit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSeptember teal seasons are offered to states that derive more than 80 percent of their annual teal harvest from the Prairie Pothole Region of the north central U.S. and southern Canada. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\u2019s annual Breeding Waterfowl and Habitat Survey recorded about 8.5 million blue-winged teal and 4.1 million green-winged teal in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>All migratory game bird hunters, including landowners who are license-exempt, must possess a Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp\/Harvest Information Program Permit. All waterfowl hunters 16 and older are also required to\u00a0possess the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (federal duck stamp), which must be signed in ink across the face to be valid. Hunters buying the federal stamp online may use the purchase code or printed receipt to show proof of purchase for 45 days. Hunters will receive their stamp in the mail from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service within this time frame.<\/p>\n<p>Licenses, stamps and permits may be purchased online via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/compass.dnr.maryland.gov\/dnrcompassportal\">COMPASS<\/a>, by phone at 1-855-855-3906, at a <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/service\/center.asp\">DNR Service Center<\/a>\u00a0or at any one of the more than\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/service\/netag2.asp\">250 Sport License Agents<\/a>\u00a0located across the state. For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.maryland.gov\/service\/\">dnr.maryland.gov\/service<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teal hunting season in Maryland will open on Wednesday, September 16, 2015 and continue through Wednesday, September 30, 2015. Hunters should note several important aspects of the September teal season: Shooting hours are one half-hour before sunrise to sunset The daily bag limit is six teal (blue or green-winged) The possession limit for teal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/09\/01\/september-teal-season-to-open-2\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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-9036","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\/9036","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9041,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions\/9041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}