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IF&W Rulemaking Proposals

Agency:  09-137 Inland Fisheries and Wildlife

Chapter Number and Title: Chapter 13.08 Watercraft (Motor Size Restrictions on Certain Inland Waters)

Statutory Authority:  12 MRSA Section 13051

Contact Person for this Filing: Becky Orff, Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, 284 State Street, 41 State House Station, Augusta, ME  04333-0041, Email: Becky.Orff@maine.gov Telephone: (207) 287-5202

Public Hearing: January 31, 2012 – Jefferson Village School, Cafeteria, 48 Washington Road, Jefferson, ME – 6:30 p.m.

Deadline for Comments: February 10, 2012

Brief Summary: The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has been petitioned to consider the following watercraft regulations: Travel Pond, Jefferson, Lincoln County – motorboats with internal combustion engines prohibited.

Agency: 09-137  Inland Fisheries and Wildlife

Chapter Number and Title: Chapter 4.05 – Moose hunting

Statutory Authority: 12 MRSA Section 11551

Contact Person for this Filing: Becky Orff, Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, 284 State Street, 41 State House Station, Augusta, ME  04333-0041, Email: Becky.Orff@maine.gov Telephone: (207) 287-5202

Public Hearing:  (if any): None scheduled – one may be requested.

Deadline for Comments:  February 24, 2012

Brief Summary:The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is proposing to adopt a rule establishing the number of moose hunting permits to be issued for the 2012 season.  Permits will be issued for bulls, antlerless and any-moose.  Permits are allocated according to Wildlife Management District as follows:

WMD 1 – 150 bulls / 150 antlerless

WMD 13 – 35 bulls / 10 antlerless

WMD 2 – 300 bulls / 300 antlerless

WMD 14 – 35 bulls

WMD 3 – 200 bulls / 300 antlerless

WMD 15 – 25 any-moose

WMD 4 – 300 bulls / 300 antlerless

WMD 16 – 20 any-moose

WMD 5 – 125 bulls / 50 antlerless

WMD 17 – 20 bulls / 10 antlerless

WMD 6 – 175 bulls / 175 antlerless

WMD 18 – 50 bulls / 10 antlerless

WMD 7 – 125 bulls / 30 antlerless

WMD 19 – 75 bulls

WMD 8 – 235 bulls / 60 antlerless

WMD 22 – 20 any-moose

WMD 9 - 50 bulls

WMD 23 – 45 any-moose

WMD 10 – 60 bulls / 10 antlerless

WMD 25 – 45 any-moose

WMD 11 – 100 bulls / 100 antlerless

WMD 26 – 45 any-moose

WMD 12 – 35 bulls / 20 antlerless

WMD 27 – 20 bulls

 

WMD 28 – 25 bulls

TOTAL:  2,115 bulls / 1525 antlerless / 200 any-moose

In WMDs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11 and 19 the season will begin on the Monday following the close of the bear baiting season and remain open for 6 days and in WMDs 1 – 14, 17, 18, 19, 27 and 28 the season will begin on the second Monday of October and remain open for 6 days.

There shall be an open season in WMDs 1 – 8, 10 and 11 to begin on the first Monday of November and remaining open for 6 days with antlerless only permits being allocated.

In WMDs 15, 16, 22, 23, 25 and 26 the season begins the 4th Monday preceding Thanksgiving to the Saturday following Thanksgiving; the Saturday preceding the first day of this season is open for the hunting of moose by permit holders who are residents of this State only.  The term “any-moose” means a moose of either sex.  Persons hunting moose during this season must comply with the same hunter orange requirements as deer hunters.  The legal hunting hours will be from ½ hour before sunrise to ½ hour after sunset.