Sixty-day season considered for flyways.(SPORTS) From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: March 9, 1997| Author: Anderson, Dennis; Smith, Doug | COPYRIGHT 1997 Star Tribune Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is quietly circulating a proposed change in its waterfowl management scheme that would clear the way for a 60-day season in the Mississippi Flyway this fall, and perhaps in other flyways as well. Hunters' daily bag limits, under the proposal, would rise from the five allowed the last two years, to six.

Data from 1995 show that under the five-bird, 50-day season allowed that year, the hunter duck harvest increased 48 percent from 1994. H...

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