Potential relief is on the way, for the moose hunter who hasn’t been able to get an adult tag the past few years.
MPP Mike Harris is parliamentary assistant to the natural resources minister. He says the tag lottery is changing to a point system. It’s retroactive for anyone who struck out the past few years.
“What will happen is every year that you don’t get a tag or you’re not successful, you’ll accrue points essentially and you’ll move up on the list in the draw, the more points that you have,” he says.
And anyone who lives in North Bay or north of there gets a northern preference point.
The fee structure is also changing.
“It’ll be a $15.00 application fee and of course there’s a $35 resident licence fee,” Harris explains, “and then the actual amount of the tags themselves for bull, cow and calf and calf tags have changed as well.”
Harris says hunting is a $560-million industry for Ontario every year. Moose hunting accounts for $200-million of that.
