ByRobert Arnason
Reading Time:2minutesPublished:October 22, 2020
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Province stopped the moose hunt in 2011 and says species’ population has not yet recovered enough for it to continue

Moose hunting is again banned in Manitoba.

The province hoped to have a limited hunting season for moose this year in the Duck and Porcupine Mountain regions, but the moose population hasn’t recovered sufficiently to withstand it.

The government is also banning night hunting on private land, beginning Oct. 10, as part of the Wildlife Amendment Act called Safe Hunting and Shared Management.

In 2011, Manitoba banned moose hunting in the Duck and Porcupine Mountains and some surrounding regions, along with bans in the north Interlake, Nopiming and Turtle…