The daily bag limit for mergansers is five to include no more than two hooded mergansers. These changes are in response to good breeding conditions and increased duck populations recorded during the 2009 continental waterfowl surveys. Two important federal regulation changes from 2008 are that the canvasback season is open for 60 days and the scaup season will allow a 2-bird daily bag for the entire 60 days. The daily bag limit is six ducks in total, not to include more than four mallards of which only one may be a hen, three wood ducks, one black duck, two redheads, two scaup, one canvasback, and one pintail. ?Overall, continental populations of waterfowl game species are healthy and abundant.? ?Wisconsin waterfowlers should have a good hunting season,? said Kent Van Horn, migratory game bird ecologist for the state Department of Natural Resources. Southern Zone: A split season opens at 9 a.m.
Other than on opening days, the hunt begins a half hour before sunrise.
MADISON ? Wisconsin duck hunters will again enjoy the maximum 60-day season in 2009 and are reminded that the Northern and Southern duck hunting zones have different opening and closing dates and a split in the Southern Zone as follows.
