People forget that if it wasn't for the VOLUNTARY restraint exercised by sportsmen, there would be no migratory waterfowl left to argue over.

Most flyways have 2 management choices available to them.
Smaller bag, or fewer days.

If your common species are doing well, but another is doing poorly, they won't cut days to lower the bag on the struggling specie.

I am in the Mississippi flyway. People are so accustomed to a 60 day season, and 6 birds, God help the USFWS when we get a bad spring and dry summer and have to go back to 30 days and 4 ducks.

I knew Eastern Shore goose numbers (excluding greater snows) were bad. Duckhunter.net has all kinds of management discussions on these things. Lots of east coast watermen hanging out there.

Out there doing it best I can.