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The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission heard the 2008-09 hunting season recommendations from Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency staff among items on its agenda at its regularly scheduled April meeting. The meeting was held at the TWRA Region II Ray Bell Building. It was the first meeting presided over by Gary Kimsey, TWRC chairman for 2008-09. Due to the severity and relative uncertainty of the impact of last year’s EHD outbreak, TWRA recommended only a few changes to the deer regulations for 2008. It was recommended that two counties, Obion and Shelby be placed into Unit L, while 21 Unit A and B counties saw only slight increases in the antlerless hunting opportunities. TWRA also sought to allow Unit L Young Sportsman hunters the same opportunity of harvesting three does per day as the rest of the hunters. In other house cleaning items, the Agency made it easier for Unit A and L hunters to take their statewide limit of three bucks by allowing all three bucks to be taken with the same weapon in the same unit. For a number of years, it has been legal for hunters to harvest three bucks with the same weapon, they simply had to hunt in different units. The new regulation is meant to simplify regulations for the Unit A and L hunters. Clarifications were also made of bonus animals and youth accompaniment while the definition of a legal antler point was given. In other big game news, bear and boar seasons saw a few minor recommendations liberalizing the hunting seasons, especially during archery season, while fall turkey season added a few more East Tennessee counties to the fall hunting list. The bear archery still hunt was extended from Sept. 27 though Oct. 24. The 2009 spring turkey season will begin March 28 and end on May 10. The youth hunt is March 21-22. A complete list of all recommendations for the 2008-09 hunting season is available on TWRA’s Web site at www.tnwildlife.org . A proclamation was passed on spotted bass identification. TWRA was presented a check of $1,000 from the Volunteer Musky Hunters. The TWRC will next meet May 21-22 in Nashville at Ray Bell Building at the Ellington Agricultural Complex.
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