Duck season opens Saturday in Vermilion, Cameron parishes

Duck season opens Saturday in the Coastal Zone (Vermilion and Cameron parishes) and the good news for hunters is that the weather is about to get cold.
In the Coastal Zone, the first segment will open on Nov. 15 and close on Dec. 7, and the second segment will open on Dec. 20 and run through Jan. 25.
By Friday, temperatures are expected to drop to 37 degrees and remain cool through Sunday.
“It is not looking good so far,” said Larry Reynolds, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries waterfowl study leader.
Duck season normally opens the first week of November, but after
hearing complaints, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries decided to push the opening date to the second week of November.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) said the shooting hours begin one-half hour before sunrise and extend until sunset. “The weather is warm and the habitat is in good shape, too. The migration is a few weeks behind. The sooner and the colder it gets, the better for us.”
The daily bag limit on ducks is six and may include no more than four mallards (no more than two of which may be females), two pintails, one canvasback, one mottled duck, one black duck, three wood ducks, three scaup and two redheads.
The daily bag limit on coots is 15. The daily bag limit for mergansers is five, of which only two may be hooded mergansers. The merganser limits are in addition to the daily bag limit for ducks.
The possession limit on ducks, coots and mergansers is three times the daily bag limit.
In the Coastal Zone, the season on light and white-fronted geese will be Nov. 15 to Dec.14 and Dec. 20 to Feb. 1. The daily bag limit on light geese is 20, with no possession limit. The daily limit on white-fronted geese is two, with a possession limit of six, however when the Canada goose season is open, the limit on white-fronted and Canada geese will be three per day in aggregate of which no more than two can be white-fronted.
In the Coastal Zone, the first segment will be Nov. 15 to Dec.14 and the second segment will run Dec. 20 to Jan. 31.
The daily limit for Canada geese is three dark geese of which no more than two can be white-fronted geese. The possession limit is nine for Canada geese.
Rails and gallinules may be taken from Nov. 15 to Jan. 7. For King and Clapper rails, the daily limit is 15 in the aggregate with a possession limit of 45. Sora and Virginia rails have a daily limit of 25 in the aggregate and a possession limit of 75. Gallinules have a daily bag limit of 15 with a possession limit of 45.