With two sessions of moose hunted completed, hunters have been enjoying above-average success thus far, with 1,508 of 2005 permit holders — 75.4 percent — filling their tags according to preliminary data.
Lee Kantar, moose biologist for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, said that during the first six-day session of moose hunting, which stretched from Sept. 24 until Sept. 29, 658 of 835 permit-holders — 79 percent — shot a moose.
“[It] looks like both seasons there was an increase over last year,” Kantar said in an email.
In 2017, hunters had a 78 percent success rate during September and a 69 percent success rate during the first October week, according to Kantar. But the September totals can’t really be directly correlated, year to year, because moose hunting was added in four Wildlife Management Districts during this year’s September hunt.
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