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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 33 / Monday, February 22, 2021 / Proposed Rule
geese require Pacific Flyway Council and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approval and a 3-year evaluation by each participating State.
California The daily bag limit for Canada and cackling geese is 10 in the aggregate.
Balance of State Zone: A Canada and cackling goose season may be selected with outside dates between the Saturday nearest September 24 September 25
and March 10. In the Sacramento Valley Special Management Area, the season on white-fronted geese must end on or before December 28, and the daily bag limit is 3 white-fronted geese. In the North Coast Special Management Area, hunting days that occur after January 31
should be concurrent with Oregons South Coast Zone.
Northeastern Zone: The white-fronted goose season may be split into 3
segments.
Oregon Eastern Zone: For Lake County only, the daily white-fronted goose bag limit is 1.
Northwest Permit Zone: A Canada and cackling goose season may be selected with outside dates between the Saturday nearest September 24 September 25
and March 10. Canada and cackling goose and white-fronted goose seasons may be split into 3 segments. In the Tillamook County Management Area, the hunting season is closed on geese.
South Coast Zone: A Canada and cackling goose season may be selected with outside dates between the Saturday nearest September 24 September 25
and March 10. Canada and cackling goose and white-fronted goose seasons may be split into 3 segments. The daily bag limit of Canada and cackling geese is 6 in the aggregate. Hunting days that occur after January 31 should be concurrent with Californias North Coast Special Management Area.
Utah A Canada and cackling goose and brant season may be selected in the Wasatch Front Zone with outside dates between the Saturday nearest September 24 September 25 and the first Sunday in February February 6.

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Washington The daily bag limit for light geese is 10 on or before the last Sunday in January January 30.
Areas 2 Inland and 2 Coastal Southwest Permit Zone: A Canada and cackling goose season may be selected in each zone with outside dates between the Saturday nearest September 24
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and cackling goose and white-fronted goose seasons may be split into 3
segments.
Area 4: Canada and cackling goose and white-fronted goose seasons may be split into 3 segments.
Permit Zones In Oregon and Washington permit zones, the hunting season is closed on dusky Canada geese. A dusky Canada goose is any dark-breasted Canada goose Munsell 10 YR color value 5 or less with a bill length between 40 and 50
millimeters. Hunting of geese will only be by hunters possessing a State-issued permit authorizing them to do so.
Shooting hours for geese may begin no earlier than sunrise. Regular Canada and cackling goose seasons in the permit zones of Oregon and Washington remain subject to the Memorandum of Understanding entered into with the Service regarding monitoring the impacts of take during the regular Canada and cackling goose season on the dusky Canada goose population.
Swans Pacific Flyway In portions of the Pacific Flyway Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Utah, an open season for taking a limited number of swans may be selected. These seasons are also subject to the following conditions:
Outside Dates: Between the Saturday nearest September 24 September 25
and January 31.
Hunting Seasons: Seasons may not exceed 107 days, and may be split into 2 segments.
Permits: Swan hunting is by permit only. Permits will be issued by the State and will authorize each permittee to take no more than 1 swan per season with each permit. Only 1 permit may be issued per hunter in Montana and Utah, 2 permits may be issued per hunter in Nevada. The total number of permits issued may not exceed 50 in Idaho, 500
in Montana, 650 in Nevada, and 2,750
in Utah.
Quotas: The swan season in the respective State must end upon attainment of the following reported harvest of trumpeter swans: 20 in Utah and 10 in Nevada. There is no quota in Montana.
Monitoring: Each State must evaluate hunter participation, species-specific swan harvest, and hunter compliance in providing either species-determinant parts at least the intact head or bill measurements bill length from tip to posterior edge of the nares opening, and presence or absence of yellow lore spots on the bill in front of the eyes of
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harvested swans for species identification. Each State should use appropriate measures to maximize hunter compliance with the States program for swan harvest reporting.
Each State must achieve a hunter compliance of at least 80 percent in providing species-determinant parts or bill measurements of harvested swans for species identification or subsequent permits will be reduced by 10 percent in the respective State. Each State must provide to the Service by June 30
following the swan season a report detailing hunter participation, speciesspecific swan harvest, and hunter compliance in reporting harvest. In Idaho and Montana, all hunters that harvest a swan must complete and submit a reporting card bill card with the bill measurement and color information from the harvested swan within 72 hours of harvest for species determination. In Utah and Nevada, all hunters that harvest a swan must have the swan or species-determinant parts examined by a State or Federal biologist within 72 hours of harvest for species determination.
Other Provisions: In Utah, the season is subject to the terms of the Memorandum of Agreement entered into with the Service in January 2019
regarding harvest monitoring, season closure procedures, and education requirements to minimize take of trumpeter swans during the swan season.
Atlantic and Central Flyways In portions of the Atlantic Flyway Delaware, North Carolina, and Virginia and the Central Flyway North Dakota, South Dakota east of the Missouri River, and that portion of Montana in the Central Flyway, an open season for taking a limited number of swans may be selected. Permits will be issued by the States that authorize the take of no more than 1 swan per permit. A second permit may be issued to hunters from unused permits remaining after the first drawing.
Monitoring: Each State must evaluate hunter participation, species-specific swan harvest, and hunter compliance in providing measurements of harvested swans for species identification. Each State should use appropriate measures to maximize hunter compliance with the States program for swan harvest reporting. Each State must achieve a hunter compliance of at least 80 percent in providing species-determinant measurements of harvested swans for species identification. Each State must provide to the Service by June 30
following the swan season a report detailing hunter participation, species-

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