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NT Field & Game Association's Bart Irwin on changes to magpie geese bag limits this season · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Wealth and Territory Government have announced that the magpie goose
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  Speaker 1: bag limits are going to be increased. So essentially they've
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  Speaker 1: said that in recognition of a larger magpie goose population
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  Speaker 1: being identified during their survey, the daily bag limit has
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  Speaker 1: been increased to seven. Now joining us on the line
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  Speaker 1: to tell us what this means is is Bart Irwin,
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  Speaker 1: who is indeed from Anty Field and Game Association. Good
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  Speaker 1: morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Bart, Good morning Katie, Bart.
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  Speaker 1: What do you reckon about this bag limit increase?
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  Speaker 2: Anti Fielding Game, along with all waterfoil handers, are thrilled
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  Speaker 2: with the increase in the bag limit to what we
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  Speaker 2: should be believe should be the standard each year. ANTI
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  Speaker 2: where Yeah, we're also pleased to answer your dialogue has
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  Speaker 2: opened up with government since Minister Nicole Manison has taken
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  Speaker 2: over Pairanger's portfolio, and we hope to be speaking with
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  Speaker 2: Minister must in the very near future.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. So it sounds sounds like there's been
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a positive change, has there, Bart.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the changes in the ministry were well received by
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  Speaker 2: us at Anti Field and Game. I can tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, And so you and I spoke a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years back, you know, when they had actually announced
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  Speaker 1: that these bag limits were going to be reduced, and
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  Speaker 1: you'd spoken about the impact that that was going to
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  Speaker 1: have when it came to hunters, particularly those that travel
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  Speaker 1: from interstate, you know, to get out there and hunt
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  Speaker 1: magpie geese. But with this increase to seven do you
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to mean that, you know, we see
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  Speaker 1: some of those visitors come back to hunt again.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, after the estimates sessions put the population at
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  Speaker 2: one point at six million. When I put that in
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  Speaker 2: the column, knew it must have all been read down south,
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  Speaker 2: because I started getting phone calls immediately from people saying
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  Speaker 2: they were coming. When did I think the birds would
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  Speaker 2: be in the reserves and where it would be the
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  Speaker 2: best place to stay? They lot the stay and caravan
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  Speaker 2: and parks at coolinga, Award Springs and Virginia there that
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  Speaker 2: some of the favorites, as well as booking and the
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  Speaker 2: homes for entire weeks. So yeah, I'm expecting a lot
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of people to come. You know. Waterfowl
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  Speaker 2: hunting provides twenty between twelve and twenty five million dollars
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  Speaker 2: worth of economic benefit to the territory of the one
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  Speaker 2: hundred million that hunting generates in the Northern Territory. So
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  Speaker 2: it's big, it's big bucks. And these are all local,
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  Speaker 2: well Australian visitors. You know, you don't have to talk
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  Speaker 2: them into coming. They don't need big issues to get here.
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  Speaker 2: They just jump in the car or jump on a
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  Speaker 2: plane and hire a car. When they get here and start,
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  Speaker 2: they has fun and take them take some beautiful mate
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  Speaker 2: home to their families in Victoria.
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  Speaker 1: Now, but I know as well that they said that. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the the waterfowl hunting season is going to commence on
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  Speaker 1: the twenty first of September, and it is indeed on
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  Speaker 1: those designated hunting reserves, with hunters also entitled to a
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  Speaker 1: daily bag limit of ten ducks. Is that a good
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  Speaker 1: move as well?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Well, the the new Makepoint gooosee management program has
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  Speaker 2: trigger points. We don't entirely agree with them at all.
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  Speaker 2: Saying that seven birds seven geese per anum is our
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  Speaker 2: seven geese each year would still be sustainable. And we
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  Speaker 2: know that last year there must have been a mistake
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  Speaker 2: because this year the count is one point eighty six
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  Speaker 2: million with sixty four thousand nests. Those nests were still
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  Speaker 2: in production during the aerial survey and lay at another
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  Speaker 2: two one hundred and fifty thousand adult ease to the
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  Speaker 2: population by the time the hunting season commences, because each
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  Speaker 2: each nest produces four and a half additional make point
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  Speaker 2: geese on average, so the population will be well over
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  Speaker 2: two point one million when the season starts. But the
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  Speaker 2: count had to be a mistake. They lost five hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand geese last year and the Aleric fisher said the
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  Speaker 2: ness count last year was significantly down or this was
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  Speaker 2: a significant increase this year up to sixty four thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Had we end up with eight hundred and eighty thousand
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  Speaker 2: more geese at the start of this year's season when
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  Speaker 2: it consider only four and a half geese could have
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  Speaker 2: been grown, So you know, they would have need to
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  Speaker 2: produce fourteen geese from each and s last year to
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  Speaker 2: get to this figure. So that's why we know we
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  Speaker 2: are dubious about the aerial survey. I've been on them
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  Speaker 2: a few times, feeling and been on them numerous times,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, what I see and what I read don't
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  Speaker 2: often add up.
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  Speaker 1: So interesting, very interesting. One last question, how do you
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  Speaker 1: like to eat your magpie geese? Crystal, my new producer
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  Speaker 1: was wondering what does it taste like, and she wants
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  Speaker 1: to know the best recipe.
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  Speaker 2: Well, like the breasts, I like grill, Yeah, the legs
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  Speaker 2: I like the cast role and then and curry and
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  Speaker 2: often I end up making pies with the leftovers from that.
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  Speaker 2: It goes beautiful with a little gravy in a pie.
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  Speaker 2: And lately friends of mine have been smoking and smoking
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  Speaker 2: the meat and also making clami and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Say it so versatile. And with that, I also use
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  Speaker 2: the giblets, the heart and liver and the main giblet
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  Speaker 2: there that grinds their all their food, so all in
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  Speaker 2: all fabulous culinary package that while I was overhead and
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  Speaker 2: my dog enjoys picking up and bring them back to me.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, But unlucky or apologies to any vegetarians
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  Speaker 1: out there listening this morning. But Bart sounds like you
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  Speaker 1: thoroughly enjoy your magpie geese, mate, and a good day
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  Speaker 1: for you guys and for all the hunters of the
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  Speaker 1: territory this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Why it's why we live here, Katie, It's why we
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  Speaker 2: live here.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Bart, always enjoy a chat with you, mate,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, Thank you