News - In category Hunting

Hunters ‘win big time’ for sending in duck band details

Helping Fish & Game’s research has “paid off big time” for five game bird hunters who’ve each been rewarded with a $600 Hunting & Fishing prize package – for returning...

Posted in Hunting; Posted 8 days ago by Grant Dyson

Manawatu teen quacks the duck calling top spot

A Manawatu teen has swept the New Zealand Duck and Goose Calling Championships in Taupo, winning all four categories he entered.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 12 days ago by Grant Dyson

New Zealand’s top youth shooters compete in Canterbury

Students from around the country have converged on Canterbury for this year’s annual New Zealand Secondary Schools Clay Target Championships.

Posted in Hunting; Tagged game bird Posted 15 days ago by Richie Cosgrove

A big call – the hunt’s on for New Zealand’s best duck caller

The country’s aspiring duck and goose callers are preparing to out-cackle and “ruffle each other’s feathers” in the New Zealand Duck and Goose Calling Championships later this month.

Posted in Hunting; Tagged game bird Posted 28 days ago by Grant Dyson

Urgent investigation into Hawke’s Bay pheasant dumping

Fish and Game has begun an urgent investigation into the dumping of dozens of dead pheasants on Napier’s Westshore Beach.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 3 months ago by Grant Dyson

Fish & Game hails hunters' safe start to duck season

Hunters are being praised for their safe start to the game bird hunting season, with no injuries over the Opening Weekend.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 5 months ago by Grant Dyson

Hunters praised for safety focus as new game bird season starts

Fish and Game staff say that most hunters encountered in a large-scale ranging operation were “more than happy” with their start to the new game bird season, that began early...

Posted in Hunting; Posted 5 months ago by Grant Dyson

Safety ‘number one priority’ this game bird season

Game bird hunters are being urged to make safety their number one priority when the new hunting season opens this weekend Saturday 5 May.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 6 months ago by Grant Dyson

Police join forces with Fish & Game rangers in safe hunting initiative

Fish & Game and police are joining forces this weekend for the opening of the game bird hunting season to encourage safety and enforce hunting and firearm laws.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 6 months ago by Richie Cosgrove

Fish Game Ranger Teams To Guard Against Mycoplasma Bovis

Fish & Game rangers in the lower South Island will be carrying disinfection kits to eliminate the risk of transferring Mycoplasma Bovis when moving from farm to farm while conducting...

Posted in Hunting; Posted 6 months ago by Richie Cosgrove

Do it now - Duck hunters urged not to leave licence purchase until last minute

Amid predictions of a good duck hunting season, game bird hunters are being encouraged to abandon their usual habit of buying a hunting licence at the last minute.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 6 months ago by Richie Cosgrove

Use it or lose it – hunters urged to claim their duck hunting maimai this weekend

Game bird hunters are being reminded time is running out to claim their favourite maimai or duck shooting spot in time for the start of the new hunting season.

Posted in Hunting; Tagged game bird Posted 6 months ago by Richie Cosgrove

Game bird hunting licences now on sale

A good duck breeding season in many parts of the country is holding the promise of a good hunting season as game bird hunting licences go on sale today.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 7 months ago by Grant Dyson

‘Biggest ever’ duck banding tally bodes well for game bird season

Duck hunters will have no shortage of birds to target when the new game bird season kicks off in May (Saturday May 5) – going by the latest Fish &...

Posted in Hunting; Posted 8 months ago by Grant Dyson

Help our threatened wetlands on World Wetlands Day

New Zealanders are being urged to celebrate World Wetlands Day by doing something practical to help protect wetlands, a habitat crucial to the survival of many of this country’s wildlife species.

Posted in Hunting; Tagged stamp Posted 9 months ago by Grant Dyson

Deadly botulism outbreak kills scores of birds at Te Aroha Wastewater Treatment Plant

A Waikato district council is being accused of failing to follow its own management plan to contain the deadly bird disease botulism after dozens of waterfowl died on its wastewater...

Posted in Hunting; Posted 9 months ago by Richie Cosgrove

Trapping ‘how to’ hints

It’s not to early to start preparing for the duck hunting season that’s now just over three months away.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 9 months ago by Grant Dyson

Kiwis dubbed 'Call Blacks' after big wins in world duck calling champs

The success of Nelson schoolgirl Holly Irvine and Otago’s Hunter Morrow in the world waterfowl calling championships in the United States has been hailed as “an amazing achievement.”

Posted in Hunting; Posted 11 months ago by Grant Dyson