Statistics - Zec Pontiac

Zec Pontiac

Hunting and fishing statistics

Fish Fishing

TABLE 1 : Fishing statstics for the 5 last years in the zec Pontiac.

Year	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total effort of fishing (days-fishermen)	11609	8786	8150	7377	8340
Total fish catches (declared)	12239	12017	12523	11323	13076
Brook trout	8588	8190	8931	7819	9101
Walleye	1799	2172	2241	2126	2409
Lake trout	987	675	605	640	734
Pike	232	275	247	293	354
Bass	633	705	499	445	478
Average success (fish/days-fishermen)	1.05	1.37	1.54	1.53	1.57

Moose Moose

TABLE 2 : Statistics (summary) for the 5 last years, zec Pontiac only, according to the "Ministère des Ressources Naturelles et de la Faune (MRNF)".

year	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Number of groups	-	-	159	154	149
Number of hunters	787	710	756	739	734
Total effort (days-hunters)	4064	4577	4369	4254	4019
Killed	79	26	76	26	65
Detail of the collects
Males	22	26	28	26	17
Females	45	-	40	-	31
Young	12	-	8	-	17
Success of the hunt (by hunter)	-	-	48%	17%	44%

TABLE 3 : Detail for each season of Moose hunt, year 2007, according to the data collected at our reception posts.

Season	number of hunters	days-hunters	total collects	male	female	calve

BOW	60	294	3	2	1	0
RIFLE	696	4075	73	26	39	8

TOTAL	756	4369	76	28	40	8

White-tailed deer

TABLE 4 : Evolution of the white-tailed deer hunt on the zec Pontiac since the 5 last years (source "MRNF").

Year	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Number of groups	-	-	-	-	-
Number of hunters	531	562	562	590	509
Total effort (days-hunters)	1765	1887	2263	1879	2019
Collects	83	94	100	63	52
Hunt success	15.6%	16.7%	17.8%	11.0%	10.0%

TABLE 5 : Detail for each deer hunting season, year 2007, according to the data collected at our reception post.

Season	number of hunter	days-hunter	total collect	male	female and fawn

BOW	59	276	0	0	0
BLACK POWDER	61	132	3	2	1
RIFLE	442	1855	97	78	19

TOTAL	562	2263	100	80	20

Black bear

TABLE 6 : Evolution of the black bear hunt on the zec Pontiac since the last 5 years (source "MRNF").

Year	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Number of groups	-	-	-	-	-
Number of hunters	110	48	26	56	79
Total effort (days-hunters)	268	149	88	211	248
Collect	7	11	7	17	9
Success	6%	23%	27%	30%	11%

The black bear hunt is very little practised. Your association make effort to attract some costumers. At each year, we let a few provider to promote this type of hunt on our territory.

Ruffed grouse

TABLE 7 : Evolution of the ruffed grouse hunt on the zec Pontiac since the last 5 years.

years	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Number of hunters	508	629	811	653	843
Total effort (days-hunters)	883	789	1357	1019	919
Collect	1076	1147	2706	1265	1690
Average success (collect / days-hunters)	1.2	1.5	2	1.2	1.8

It should be noted that all the operating data of the zec Pontiac are collected via the reception post and are then checked by the MRNF .

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