In
running far ahead of the plummeting number of youth turkey hunting
licenses sold, the tally of birds taken during Ohio’s two-day
youth-only spring season rose sharply.
This
season ran April 18th and 19th. Youths age 17 and younger were
allowed to hunt. They shot 1,843 wild turkeys, an increase of 512
birds from the 1,331 turkeys the youths killed during the 2019
youth-only season. That was an increase of about 39 percent.
Which
was in sharp contrast to the number of youth spring turkey hunting
licenses issued by the Ohio Division of Wildlife. As of April 13th,
the Wildlife Division had sold just 1,935 youth spring turkey hunting
licenses: a drop of 3,738 such permits the agency issued for the same
period in 2019 (5,673 documents).
Top
11 counties for wild turkey harvest during the 2020 youth season
include: Monroe (71), Tuscarawas (68), Muskingum (63), Meigs (57),
Washington (55), Noble (51), Guernsey (48), Belmont (47), Coshocton
(45), Columbiana (44) and Harrison (44).
Of
Ohio’s 88 counties, 11 showed declines while three had identical
2019 and 2020 youth-only spring turkey hunting season kills.
Here
is the county-by-county breakdown, their the respective 2019 figures
in parentheses: Adams: 41 (26); Allen: 10 (5); Ashland: 19 (23);
Ashtabula: 36 (33); Athens: 34 (22); Auglaize: 4 (5); Belmont: 47
(38); Brown: 40 (36); Butler: 24 (10); Carroll: 32 (25); Champaign: 9
(2); Clark: 4 (1); Clermont: 31 (25); Clinton: 15 (6); Columbiana: 44
(30); Coshocton: 45 (42); Crawford: 3 (2); Darke: 8 (17); Defiance:
40 (17); Delaware: 11 (6); Erie: 2 (5); Fairfield: 11 (3); Fayette: 5
(1); Franklin: 2 (0); Fulton: 23 (7); Gallia: 36 (26); Geauga: 13
(18); Greene: 1 (2); Guernsey: 48 (44); Hamilton: 5 (4); Hancock: 7
(1); Hardin: 9 (8); Harrison: 44 (38); Henry: 13 (10); Highland: 41
(23); Hocking: 26 (10); Holmes: 37 (28); Huron: 7 (8); Jackson: 30
(21); Jefferson: 36 (31); Knox: 33 (30); Lake: 6 (6); Lawrence: 19
(17); Licking: 30 (22); Logan: 12 (7); Lorain: 11 (10); Lucas: 8 (3);
Madison: 0 (1); Mahoning: 16 (18); Marion: 5 (2); Medina: 18 (6);
Meigs: 57 (38); Mercer: 4 (1); Miami: 7 (2); Monroe: 71 (66);
Montgomery: 3 (2); Morgan: 36 (25); Morrow: 21 (13); Muskingum: 63
(30); Noble: 51 (50); Paulding: 9 (3); Perry: 33 (19); Pickaway: 6
(1); Pike: 13 (16); Portage: 19 (18); Preble: 8 (6); Putnam: 11 (6);
Richland: 16 (21); Ross: 31 (17); Sandusky: 3 (0); Scioto: 28 (11);
Seneca: 8 (13); Shelby: 4 (2); Stark: 19 (11); Summit: 3 (5);
Trumbull: 43 (22); Tuscarawas: 68 (47); Union: 5 (4); Van Wert: 4
(2); Vinton: 35 (29); Warren: 15 (5); Washington: 55 (39); Wayne: 11
(11); Williams: 20 (7); Wood: 4 (0); Wyandot: 8 (8).
JFrischk@Ameritech.net
JFrischk4@gmail.com
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