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CXN--Safety, Success Highlight Hunting Season

Natural Resources (to July 2018)

CORRECTION: To item originally transmitted on Thursday, Feb. 11 -- please note, in the Nova Scotia Deer Harvest Summary, incorrect figures were given for Inverness County and those for Victoria County were inadvertently omitted. The correct table follows.

NOVA SCOTIA DEER HARVEST SUMMARY, 1995-1998

County *1995 *1996 *1997 1998

Lunenburg 812 932 1118 1486 Queens 354 386 447 559 Shelburne 288 271 343 560 Yarmouth 246 315 413 558 Digby 232 247 347 392 Annapolis 323 379 427 457 Kings 325 345 402 496 Halifax 492 676 795 1070 Hants 537 633 854 1114 Cumberland 570 685 842 1058 Colchester 727 858 1020 1382 Pictou 653 777 869 1150 Antigonish 309 283 355 463 Guysborough 399 417 527 593 Inverness 298 435 392 455 Victoria 67 46 103 125 Cape Breton 152 223 290 365 Richmond 235 256 319 436 Unknown 19 27 0 76

Total 7038 8191 9863 12795

Licence Sales 52257 52275 58061 NA Hunter Success (%) 13.5 15.7 19.0 NA Bow Harvest 109 127 238 218 Non-Resident Harvest 72 81 113 119

  • Harvest restricted to antlered deer only provincewide.

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