US Fish & Wildlife Service
Date of this Version
2-17-2011
Citation
Harvest Management Working Group 2011 Annual Meeting Report November 29 - December 1, 2011 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Abstract
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1
BACKGROUND 4
2 REPORTS FROM PARTNERS 4
2.1 Atlantic Flyway (Min Huang and Bryan Swift) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2 Mississippi Flyway (Larry Reynolds and Adam Phelps) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3 Central Flyway (Mike Johnson and Mark Vrtiska) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..8
2.4 Pacific Flyway (Jon Runge and Don Kraege) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3 NEW BUSINESS 11
3.1 Central Flyway ideas for a modified licensing system (Mark Vrtiska) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.2 Emerging issues affecting band recovery information (Mike Johnson) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3 Considerations for updating harvest strategy regulatory alternatives (Don Kraege and Jon Runge) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.4 Eider assessment (Chris Dwyer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.5 Redhead assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4 ASSESSMENT UPDATES 14
4.1 Black Duck (Pat Devers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.2 2011 teal assessment update (Kathy Fleming) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.3 Scaup (Scott Boomer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.4 Updated methods for estimation of mallard harvest rates (Scott Boomer and Guthrie Zimmer- man) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.5 Eastern and Mid-continent mallard AHM sub-model performance (Guthrie Zimmerman and Scott Boomer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5 HMWG STRATEGIC PLANNING 18
5.1 Case Study I (Draft SEIS on the Issuance of Annual Regulations Permitting the Hunting of Migratory Birds) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.2 Case Study II (North American Waterfowl Management Plan Revision) . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.3 Case Study III (Mallard AHM Model Set Revision) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6 HMWG PRIORITY ACTIONS AND WORK PLANNING 29
LITERATURE CITED 32
Harvest Management Working Group 2011 Meeting Agenda 33
Harvest Management Working Group Terms of Reference 35
2012 Harvest Management Working Group Priorities 37
2011 Harvest Management Working Group Members 38
2011 Harvest Management Working Group Meeting Participants 40