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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 134 / Friday, July 16, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
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.
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Season Lengths, Outside Dates, and Limits 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, 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
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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.

Wyoming may select seasons in each of 3 zones; and all these States may split their season in each zone into 2
segments. Nebraska may select seasons in each of 4 zones.

Central Flyway
Geese
Ducks, Mergansers, and Coots
Special Early Canada and Cackling Goose Seasons Season Lengths, Outside Dates, and Limits: In Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas, Canada and cackling goose seasons of not more than 30 days during September 130 may be selected. In Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, and Wyoming, Canada and cackling goose seasons of not more than 15 days during September 115 may be selected. In North Dakota, Canada and cackling goose seasons of not more than 22 days during September 122 may be selected. The daily bag limit may not exceed 5 Canada and cackling geese in the aggregate, except in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, where the daily bag limit may not exceed 8 Canada and cackling geese in the aggregate, and in North Dakota and South Dakota, where the daily bag limit may not exceed 15 Canada and cackling geese in the aggregate. Areas open to the hunting of Canada and cackling geese must be described, delineated, and designated as such in each States hunting regulations.
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset, except that during September 115 shooting hours may extend to one-half hour after sunset if all other waterfowl and crane seasons are closed in the specific applicable area.

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.
Coot Limits: The daily bag limit is 15
coots.
Zoning and Split Seasons: Colorado, Kansas Low Plains portion, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma Low Plains portion, South Dakota Low Plains portion, Texas Low Plains portion, and Wyoming may select hunting seasons by zones.
North Dakota may split their season into 3 segments. Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas may select seasons in each of 2 zones; and Colorado, Kansas, South Dakota, and
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Regular Goose Seasons Season Lengths, Outside Dates, and Limits Outside Dates: For dark geese, seasons may be selected between the outside dates of the Saturday nearest September 24 September 25 and the Sunday nearest February 15 February 13. For light geese, outside dates for seasons may be selected between the Saturday nearest September 24 September 25
and March 10. In the Rainwater Basin Light Goose Area East and West of Nebraska, temporal and spatial restrictions that are consistent with the late-winter snow goose hunting strategy cooperatively developed by the Central Flyway Council and the Service are required.
Dark Geese: In Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and the Eastern Goose Zone of Texas, States may select a season for Canada and cackling geese or any other dark goose species except white-fronted geese not to exceed 107 days with a
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