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The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today announced that it will take input on the dates for and structure of the 2008-2009 migratory bird hunting season at an information meeting to be held August 1 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the rear conference room at the DEP Marine Headquarters, Old Lyme.

This meeting provides interested parties an opportunity to comment on the proposed dates for the hunting season and to hear reports on various migratory bird issues from DEP staff. The final hunting season dates will be formulated shortly after the comments are compiled and evaluated.
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LITTLE ROCK – It’s time to pull the shotgun out of the gun case and give it a good cleaning. Commissioners from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission today approved the early migratory bird seasons for 2008-2009.

Early migratory bird seasons for 2008-2009:

Mourning Dove and Eurasian Collared Dove

* Sept. 6 to Sept. 28
Oct. 4 to Oct. 19
Dec. 13 to Jan. 2, 2009
* Daily bag limit: 15 birds
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The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announces that the final framework for the 2008 dove season has been approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This year the north and south zones in Alabama will hunt under a 70-day season with a 15-a-day bag limit. This change was finalized in late June and represents an increase in the bag limit for the south zone and an increase of the number of hunting days for the north zone.
The south zone includes Baldwin, Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva, Henry, Houston and Mobile counties. The remaining counties are in the north zone.
The season dates are:
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has scheduled an additional scoping meetings to gather public input on a proposal to move the South Zone second split of dove season deeper into January.

To provide additional public comment opportunities, TPWD will hold a scoping meeting in Mission on July 9 at the World Birding Center, Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park, 2800 South Bentsen Palm Drive.

Two other scoping meetings will be held on the following dates and at these locations:
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Tentative migratory bird season regulations were approved at the June meeting of the Fish and Game Council.

Although the US Fish and Wildlife Service has not yet adopted these season dates, they are very likely to be the final selections for season dates in New Jersey.

A summary of the tentative regulations is available on the NJ DEP Division of Fish and Wildlife Website at http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/pdf/2008/08-09mig_seasons.pdf (PDF format). The Migratory Bird Regulations booklet, which contains more complete information, will be available in August.