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» Moose hunting season to be postponed by one week By Greg Huneault theNews with MNR release The 1988 opening of the moose season across mid-Ontario has been delayed one week to October 8 to protect adult bulls during the mating season and to ensure an increase in the provincial herd. "Opening the season later reduces overharvesting that can occur when the hunt happens to coincide with the peak of the rut when bulls are less cautious," Natural Resources Minister Vincent Karrio said. The overall objective is to pro- vide hunting opportunities, but also to help the provincial herd double by the year 2000. Under MNR's selective harvest program, intro- duced in 1983, the herd has already grown to an estimated 110,000 from 80,000. Hunters can shoot adult moose only if they enter a draw and receive a validation tag. Overharvesting reduces hunting opportunities in a wildlife manage- ment unit (WMU) because the number of validation tags available to hunters is based on a planned harvest and hunter success rates. Hunters in this area--designat- ed WMU 21A-- last year had a chance at the quota of 1,585 bulls and 440 cows. The WMU 21A extends from Nipigon to Marathon. Jim Chappell, the outdoor recre- ation supervisor with the Terrace Bay District MNR office, told the News there has been a success rate of between 17 and 20 per cent in the past. He said an aerial survey indicat-: ed a good number of calves and mature adults. Despite poor weath- er during last year's opening week, the season went well. To determine tag quotas, the planned harvest is divided by the average hunter success in the WMU. If, for example, the planned harvest is 100 animals and the hunter success rate is 25 per cent, then 400 tags can be made avail- able. : However, a hunt coinciding with the rut can increase success rates, which in turn can reduce hunting opportunities the next year. In WMU 21A, the MNR has alloted 1,585 bull tags and 290 cow tags, which total 1,875 tags for 1988. Bow hunters have been allot- ted 75 bull tags and 20 cow tags for a total of 95. Traditionally, the moose season opens the first week in October in the core moose range north of the French and Mattawa Rivers, Lake Superior and the Ontario- Minnesota border. In the future, the opening will be the Saturday cios- est to October 8. For hunters this year, the dead- line for applications to enter the adult moose validation tag draw is 5 pm, Monday, May 16. Residents of Ontario hunting with rifles, shotguns and loaders have.a chance between Oct. 8 and Dec. 15 to bag a moose. The season for resident bow hunters is from Sept. 17 and Oct. 7. All applications must be received at either the post box list- ed on the back of the application. form, or a ministry district office by that date. Mr. Kerrio cautioned candidates for the tag draw to fill out applica- tion forms completely and correctly to avoid disqualification. Each year, several hundred hunters dis- qualify themselves through appli- cation errors. Draw applications are available now at the ministry district office in Terrace Bay and from all provincial _ licence issuers. Minister recognizes literacy groups Alvin Curling, Minister of Skills Development has delivered the fol- lowing message to northwestern Ontario literacy groups: "The government's literacy pro- grams are building on the strength of community-based groups. We recognize the significance of teaching literacy through the part- nership of an adult tutor and adult learner. 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