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Speaker 1: Plenty of news I think over the last couple of days,

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Speaker 1: and some of it you might have missed. But one

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Speaker 1: thing that we certainly didn't miss yesterday was the fact

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Speaker 1: that we now know there's been some certainty when it

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Speaker 1: comes to hunting, with the waterfowl hunting season set to

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Speaker 1: get underway on September six now joining me live on

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Speaker 1: the line, well, Avid hunter and conservationist Bart Irwin. Good morning, Bart,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Katie. Mate. Talk us through the announcement and

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Speaker 1: how good is it to have this certainty, not only

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the dates, but also when it

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Speaker 1: comes to what you're able to hunt.

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Speaker 2: Yes well for for the goose lotto that we've experienced

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Speaker 2: since twenty seventeen is finally over. We know what we're

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Speaker 2: going to get, and we know how long we're going

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Speaker 2: to get it for. And it's just magnificent that this is.

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Speaker 2: Josh Bergoin and Mary Queer Boothby got their heads together

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Speaker 2: and have called the season from now until twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: nine thirty and it will be a season that starts

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Speaker 2: on the first Saturday in September, which this year will

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Speaker 2: be the sixth of September, so it's moved from a

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Speaker 2: Wednesday opening, normal Wednesday opening, and that used to be

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Speaker 2: around about the twentieth twenty third of September, so we've

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Speaker 2: got an extra couple of weeks up front, and we'll

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Speaker 2: close on the first Sunday afternoon Year's Day, and that's

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Speaker 2: been pretty regular over time. But at the same time,

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Speaker 2: the bag limits have been set at the old traditional

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Speaker 2: seven geese and ten ducks, and that will remain for

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Speaker 2: five years as well. So it's just wonderful that hunters,

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Speaker 2: like whether they be local, interstate, or around the national,

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Speaker 2: are aware of what's coming when it's coming, and businesses

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Speaker 2: like the gunshops and so forth, because they have to

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Speaker 2: order their ammunition for this in March, so if they

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Speaker 2: know how many birds are in the bag limit, well

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Speaker 2: they know sort of good an idea of how much

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Speaker 2: ammunition they're going to sell for the years.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and I know that over the years, like you

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Speaker 1: and I have spoken on numerous occasions when it comes

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Speaker 1: to know those bag limits. I remember one year in

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Speaker 1: particular where it was reduced astronomically and you'd spoken to

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Speaker 1: me about the you know, the concerns around that, like

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Speaker 1: how low did it go for a little.

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Speaker 2: While there in twenty seventeen was the first time it

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Speaker 2: had ever been reduced below seven, and it went down

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Speaker 2: to three that year, and that occurred again in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one, and I think there were two other years

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Speaker 2: where it went down to five. So it's been all

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Speaker 2: over the shop, up and down. Like Bride's ninety.

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Speaker 1: Good line. But I haven't heard that one before. You

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Speaker 1: took me by surprise.

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Speaker 2: It's one of my dad as they usually are.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me in terms of you know what this

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Speaker 1: means not only for certainty for locals that like to

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Speaker 1: go hunting, but also we know that it does bring

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Speaker 1: in tourists as well. What does it mean from that perspective.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the having the season announced for five years

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Speaker 2: means that interstate hunters who are often going to have

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Speaker 2: to fly up can now when specials come on in

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Speaker 2: that period of the year. There are often specials because

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Speaker 2: it's the shoulder season of the tourism that when they

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Speaker 2: see a special lad and go yep, the book the

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Speaker 2: holidays with the paymstress of work and then book the

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Speaker 2: tickets and rent a car, get all those things done.

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Speaker 2: But they can do it when the prices are best,

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Speaker 2: and that means they'll probably stay longer and they'll spend

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Speaker 2: more money while we're here. It won't all go to

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Speaker 2: the airline, go into the govern of the pockets of

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Speaker 2: local businesses.

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Speaker 1: Now, what do people need to know in terms of

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Speaker 1: getting permits, making sure that they have everything that they're

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Speaker 1: supposed to have before accessing certain.

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Speaker 2: Areas or yes, well, for local hunters, they need to

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Speaker 2: apply for a waterfowl hunting permit. They can do that

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Speaker 2: online and I suggest they do. It's easier than getting

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Speaker 2: out to go to house there at Palmerston during business hours.

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Speaker 2: If they go online do that. The permits go for

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Speaker 2: five years, well, they go for any period of time,

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Speaker 2: but up to five years they're cheaper. If you get

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Speaker 2: the five year permit, it's twenty dollars a year, or

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Speaker 2: it's eighty dollars for a five year permit. If they

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Speaker 2: are new to shooting, they need to go and see

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Speaker 2: the police at the Palmerston Police station and apply for

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Speaker 2: a shooter's license and I'll see a test for that.

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Speaker 2: If they're interstators, they also have to get a parks

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Speaker 2: passed to hunt on three of our hunting reserves. So

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Speaker 2: even though they've got a may have a waterfowl hunting permit.

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Speaker 2: For interstatus, they need a parks pass, which I think

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Speaker 2: they can get for one week or one month or

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Speaker 2: twelve months, so that can be done online as well.

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Speaker 2: The shops will have the two gun shops at Coolinger

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Speaker 2: Guns and Ammo and Fishing Outdoor World. They'll be able

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Speaker 2: to buy all their ammunition in there. They're hunting their

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Speaker 2: camo hunting clothes, firearms and decoys I think as well

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Speaker 2: and goose call. So there's all. You've got to have

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Speaker 2: all the accoutruments as well.

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Speaker 1: Yep. Well, but you have to mate, You've got to

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Speaker 1: make sure you're prepared. Hey, I recall there was an

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Speaker 1: expansion recently as well to the Harrison Dam hunting area.

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Speaker 1: Is that right and is that going to be the

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Speaker 1: first Is this going to be the first year that

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Speaker 1: you can hunt there or what was it going with that?

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Speaker 2: Well, once again this country Liberal Party government is just

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Speaker 2: ticking all the boxes. That was part of their hunting

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Speaker 2: policy was to expand Harrison Dam and find another hunting reserve.

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Speaker 2: They did that within three weeks of the election last year.

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Speaker 2: They were already had trucks and excavation equipment down there

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Speaker 2: at Harrison Dam, building a causeway to allow access to

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Speaker 2: more of the Beatrice Lagoon shoreline, which is the outfall

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Speaker 2: of Harrison Dam. And they got that done before the

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Speaker 2: wet kicked in and people got about about six weeks

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Speaker 2: hunting with that extra area. So that's still there, I

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Speaker 2: think there. I've been in talks with Jared Mayley and

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Speaker 2: he's thinking of extending that cause way to because they've

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Speaker 2: got a little soft at the end of it last

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Speaker 2: year after the rain. But yeah, there is work ahead

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Speaker 2: to find another hunting hunting reserve that's suitable for waterfowl.

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Speaker 2: Waterfowl hunters and we know what's happened out at the

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Speaker 2: Silkwood station there that's going to allow hunting on feral animals.

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Speaker 2: They keep ticking all the boxes. All the promises they

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Speaker 2: made to hunters are coming true.

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Speaker 1: Well, Bart Irwin, it is good to catch up with you.

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Speaker 1: Good to find out a little bit more about about

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Speaker 1: what the go is for this waterfowl hunting season. Thank

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Speaker 1: you as always for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Cotie for having me on. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: No worries, it all good on your bart. Thank you