Family-Outdoors

Waterfowl North Dakota’s 2015 waterfowl season is set, with noteworthy changes including a daily bag limit of two canvasbacks and three white-fronted geese. Opening day for North Dakota residents is  Sept. 26  for ducks, geese, coots and mergansers. Nonresidents may begin hunting waterfowl in North Dakota  Oct. 3 . The season for swans opens Oct. 3  for both residents and nonresidents. Hunters may take six ducks per day with the following restrictions: five mallards of which two may be hens, three wood ducks, three scaup, two redheads, two pintails and two canvasbacks. Similar to last year, an additional two blue-winged teal can be taken from  Sept. 26 through Oct. 11 . The daily limit of five mergansers may include no more than two hooded mergansers. For ducks and mergansers, the possession limit is three times the daily limit. The hunting season for Canada geese in the Missouri River zone will close  Jan. 1, 2016 , while the remainder of ...

http://www.fws.gov/hunting Goose Recipes North Dakota’s early Canada goose season is set, and bag limits and licensing requirements are the same as last year. The season will open  Aug. 15  and continue through  Sept. 15 , except in the Missouri River Zone where the season ends  Sept. 7 . The early Canada goose season has a limit of 15 daily and 45 in possession. Limits and shooting hours for the early season are different from the regular season. Shooting hours during the early season are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset daily. Residents need a $5 early Canada goose license and a general game and habitat license. Also, residents age 16 and older need a small game license. Nonresidents need only a $50 early Canada goose license, and the license is valid statewide without counting against the 14-day regular season license. A federal duck stamp for hunters age 16 and older, and Harvest Information Program certification, is required beginn...