Posted on 10/19/2015 6:12:46 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Rather than let the herds drown or starve, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game opened the season on Thursday, giving hunters the go-ahead to start harvesting herds found on drifting ice floes in waters adjacent to Nunivak and Nelson islands.
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Hmmmm....could make for precarious hunting shooting and harvesting a moose on a big block of ice. I think I’d pass.
Not moose.
Mature bulls are about 5 ft high (1.5 m) at the shoulder and weigh 600 – 800 lbs (273 – 364 kg). Cows are smaller, averaging approximately 4 ft (1.2 m) in height and weighing 400 – 500 lbs (182 – 227 kg). An 800-lb muskox will dress out at about 480 (218 kg) lbs, providing roughly 275 lbs (125 kg) of meat.
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=muskoxhunting.main
They have an island that’s getting overpopulated and need to reduce the herd size. The rest of the story is BS, the Musk OX are not on the ice flow’s.
Where’s Greenpeace to tow or push the ice floes back to land?
Moose, ox, whatever. Just how are hunters supposed to get that ox off a block of ice and into a boat. :)
Exactly.
“because unusually warm temperatures mean the sheets of ice the animals inhabit are melting and drifting into the Bering Sea.”
What is a ruminant who eats vegetation going to do on a sheet of ice for food? I can understand a seal or walrus or polar bear stopping by, but a hairy cow won’t inhabit ice.
If an Alaska resident spots a musk ox floating on ice sea ice adjacent to a western Alaska game management unit, they can now legally hunt it without a permit because the land mammals don’t have much of a chance of surviving anyway.
On Wednesday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game issued an emergency order allowing residents to harvest musk ox if the animal is stranded on free-flowing ice surrounded by salt water in Game Management Unit 18 — an area that stretches along the Bering Sea from Kotlik to Platinum and includes Nunivak Island, which is home to more musk oxen than people.
http://www.adn.com/article/20151014/hunters-can-target-musk-oxen-stranded-western-alaska-ice-floes
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is opening a resident hunting season for musk oxen that are stranded on free-floating ice floes completely surrounded by salt water in Unit 18. The hunting season opens October 15, 2015 and residents taking musk oxen from ice floes must comply with hunt conditions specified in regulation 5 AAC 92.046 Permits for taking incidental or stranded musk oxen. The area affected by this announcement includes coastal marine waters adjacent to muskox populations located on Nunivak and Nelson islands in Unit 18.
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/applications/webintra/wcnews/2015/releases/10-14-2015.pdf
I agree. One of these animals on chunk ice is nothing more than an anomaly or bad luck for the animal being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Natives drag in whales weighing dozens of tons.
I think they could handle hundreds of pounds.
Perhaps, but all the global warmers will swallow it hook,line and sinker!
Alaska Ping!
HOWEVER - If they were Polar Bears on ice flows they would not let anyone shoot those poor defenseless casualties of climate change.
Yeah, but whales are floated in for harvesting. Wouldn’t think you would do the same with an ox. I know I wouldn’t want to.
A friend was moose hunting and bagged a nice one!
One problem, it dropped in a swamp!
It was a major project to clean and cut, then pack it out from the swamp.
Polar bears are highly displeased over this turn of events.
I guess they would cut it into smaller pieces.
They need better political representation!
Mammals may only be shown in sweet, cuddly and anthropomorphic representations.
Hungry carnivores, not allowed.
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