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PIERRE -- The Game, Fish and Parks Commission has finalized the 2000 duck and goose seasons with a few adjustments to open units and season dates.
The daily limit for ducks is six, which may include no more than five mallards, two of which can be a hen. Daily limits can also include no more than two wood ducks, two redheads or three scaup, and only one canvasback or one pintail. Merganser limits allow hunters five of the birds, of which no more than one can be a hooded merganser.
Season dates are Sept. 30 through Jan. 4, 2001 for the High Plains.
The Low Plains season will again have three zones. The north and middle zones will be open Sept. 30 through Dec. 12. The south zone will open Oct. 14 and continue through Dec. 26.
Daily shooting hours for ducks are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
Canada goose hunters will get a new Unit 3, which includes the counties of Marshall, Day, Roberts, Grant, Clark, Codington, Hamlin and Deuel. Unit 3 opens Sept. 30 and goes through Dec. 17.
The majority of the state in Unit 1 will open Sept. 30 and will be open through Dec. 31. In central South Dakota along the Missouri River (Unit 2), the season will open approximately two weeks later on Oct. 21 to allow hunters to take advantage of late migrating Canada geese. Unit 2 will be open through Jan. 23, 2001.
White-fronted geese can be hunted statewide, Sept. 30 through Dec. 24.
The light goose season, which includes all geese except Canada geese, brant, and white-fronted geese, will be open Sept. 30 through Dec. 24.
Daily shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset, statewide.
Daily limits could include 20 light geese, two white-fronted geese and three Canada geese (or any goose species other than light geese and white-fronted geese). Starting Dec. 1, the daily Canada goose limit in a portion of Grant and Roberts counties is two.
Uploaded: 8/17/2000
Uploaded: 8/17/2000