AR-News: (CaRecord number of geese return to flyway nada)

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

With an annual 23 percent population increase in Canada geese, Atlantic 
Flyway goose hunters may see their first season since 1995
 
ESPN Outdoors news service

The Atlantic population of Canada geese will return to the Atlantic Flyway in 
record numbers this fall, continuing a remarkable resurgence in eastern North 
America after years of steep population declines in the late 1980s and early 
1990s, according to a release by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 
Recent aerial surveys conducted by biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service, the Canadian Wildlife Service, and the Atlantic Flyway Council on 
the birds' breeding grounds in northern Quebec around the Hudson and Ungava Bay 
regions documented a record high 146,000 nesting pairs, a dramatic 57 percent 
increase in the Atlantic population from the previous year. Only a few years 
ago, this same survey recorded 29,000 nesting pairs.


full story:

http://espn.go.com/outdoors/hunting/news/2001/0727/1231989.html



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