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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 33 / Monday, February 22, 2021 / Proposed Rule
SJBP Zone: A 40-day season may be held between November 15 and January 14, with a 3-bird daily bag limit.
Additionally, a special late season may be held between January 15 and February 15, with a 5-bird daily bag limit.
AP Zone: A 30-day season may be held between November 15 and February 5, with a 1-bird daily bag limit.
RP Zone: An 80-day season may be held between November 15 and March 10, with a 5-bird daily bag limit. The season may be split into 3 segments.

Hunting Seasons and Duck Limits: 60
days. The daily bag limit is 6 ducks, including no more than 4 mallards no more than 2 of which may be females, 1 mottled duck, 2 black ducks, 1 pintail, 3 wood ducks, 2 canvasbacks, and 2
redheads. The season for scaup may be split into 2 segments, with one segment consisting of 45 consecutive days with a 2-scaup daily bag limit, and the second segment consisting of 15
consecutive days with a 1-scaup daily bag limit.
Merganser Limits: The daily bag limit is 5, only 2 of which may be hooded mergansers. In States that include mergansers in the duck bag limit, the daily limit is the same as the duck bag limit, only 2 of which may be hooded mergansers.
Coot Limits: The daily bag limit is 15
coots.
Zoning and Split Seasons: Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi may split their seasons into 3 segments. Kentucky and Tennessee may select seasons in each of 2 zones; and Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin may select seasons in each of 3 zones; and all these States may split their season in each zone into 2
segments. Illinois may select seasons in each of 4 zones. Louisiana may select seasons in each of 2 zones and may split their season in each zone into 3
segments. Louisiana must conduct an evaluation of the impacts of zones and splits on hunter dynamics e.g., hunter numbers, satisfaction and harvest during the 202125 seasons.

West Virginia
Geese
An 80-day season may be held between October 1 and March 10, with a 5-bird daily bag limit. The season may be split into 3 segments.

Season Lengths, Outside Dates, and Limits
Rhode Island A 60-day season may be held between October 1 and January 31, with a 2-bird daily bag limit. A special late season may be held in designated areas from January 15 to February 15, with a 5-bird daily bag limit.
South Carolina In designated areas, an 80-day season may be held between October 1 and March 10, with a 5-bird daily bag limit.
The season may be split into 3
segments.
Vermont Lake Champlain Zone and Interior Zone: A 30-day season may be held between October 10 and February 5, with a 2-bird daily bag limit.
Connecticut River Zone: A 60-day season may be held between October 1
and January 31, with a 2-bird daily bag limit.
Virginia
Light Geese Season Lengths, Outside Dates, and Limits: States may select a 107-day season between October 1 and March 10, with a 25-bird daily bag limit and no possession limit. Seasons may be split into 3 segments.

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Brant Season Lengths, Outside Dates, and Limits: States may select a 50-day season between the Saturday nearest September 24 September 25 and January 31. Seasons may be split into 2
segments.
Mississippi Flyway Ducks, Mergansers, and Coots Outside Dates: Between the Saturday nearest September 24 September 25
and January 31.

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Canada and Cackling Geese: States may select a 107-day season between September 1 and February 15 with a daily bag limit of 5 geese in the aggregate.
White-fronted Geese: States may select either a 74-day season with a daily bag limit of 3 geese, an 88-day season with a daily bag limit of 2 geese, or a 107-day season with a daily bag limit of 1 goose. Seasons must be between September 1 and February 15.
Brant: States may select either a 70day season with a daily bag limit of 2
brant or a 107-day season with a daily bag limit of 1 brant. Seasons must be between September 1 and February 15.
In lieu of a separate brant season, brant may be included in the season for Canada and cackling geese with a daily bag limit of 5 geese in the aggregate.
Dark Geese: In lieu of separate seasons for Canada and cackling geese, white-fronted geese, and brant,
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Alabama, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin may select a 107-day dark goose season between September 1 and February 15
with a daily bag limit of 5 geese in the aggregate.
Light Geese: States may select a 107day season between September 1 and February 15 with a daily bag limit of 20
geese. There is no possession limit for light geese.
Split Seasons: Seasons for geese may be split into 4 segments.
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset, except that during September 115 shooting hours may extend to one-half hour after sunset for Canada and cackling geese if all other waterfowl and crane seasons are closed in the specific applicable area.
Central Flyway Ducks, Mergansers, and Coots Outside Dates: Between the Saturday nearest September 24 September 25
and January 31.
Hunting Seasons High Plains Mallard Management Unit roughly defined as that portion of the Central Flyway that lies west of the 100th meridian: 97 days. The last 23
days must run consecutively and may start no earlier than the Saturday nearest December 10 December 11.
Remainder of the Central Flyway: 74
days.
Duck Limits: The daily bag limit is 6
ducks, including no more than 5
mallards no more than 2 of which may be females, 2 redheads, 3 wood ducks, 1 pintail, and 2 canvasbacks. The daily bag limit for scaup is 1, and the season for scaup may be split into 2 segments, with one segment consisting of 39
consecutive days and another segment consisting of 35 consecutive days. In Texas, the daily bag limit on mottled ducks is 1, except that no mottled ducks may be taken during the first 5 days of the season. In addition to the daily limits listed above, the States of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, in lieu of selecting an experimental September teal season, may include an additional daily bag and possession limit of 2 and 6 blue-winged teal, respectively, during the first 16
days of the regular duck season in each respective duck hunting zone. These extra limits are in addition to the regular duck bag and possession limits.
Merganser Limits: The daily bag limit is 5 mergansers, only 2 of which may be hooded mergansers. In States that include mergansers in the duck daily bag limit, the daily limit may be the same as the duck bag limit, only two of which may be hooded mergansers.

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