• ezmack@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    Not sure about NY, by me at least the state environmental agency surveys populations and sets bag limits. For example there’s an area near me where they’re trying to encourage a specific rabbit population by maintaining a habitat so they encourage coyote hunting there. We don’t have tournaments like this though, if anything they’ll do a special season or allow hunting on a piece of public land they normally wouldn’t.

    Having said that landowners can do pretty much whatever they want. You’re actually more restricted hunting for meat/pelts on your land than you are killing ‘nuisance’ animals; there’s seasons, bag limits, and reporting requirements if you keep the meat/pelt but not if you kill it as a pest

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      1 year ago

      @ezmack If it’s a legit cull for the betterment of the surrounding environment, that’s one thing, but that’s not what the linked hunt is about.

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        1 year ago

        No and it’s really dubious whether it works at all. In addition to the spurring breeding thing in the article, I’ve heard you’re really just shuffling them onto neighboring territory and making it your neighbors problem