Was DougE right when he claimed DCNR was managing SFL at lower DDs than SGLs? The recently released data on DMAP harvests might indicate that is possible in 2G, but the data shows that is not the case in the majority of the state. In 15 WMUs the DMAP harvest only increased the antlerless harvest by 2% or less and in 6 WMUs the change was reported as 0%.

Personally, I was surprised to see that the DMAP harvest increased the antlerless harvest reported by the PGC by 35%. The 2008 reported antlerless harvest in 2g in 2008 was 6,500 and the DMAP harvest was an additional 2288.

Now the question is , did the PGC take into account the large number of DMAP tags when they allocated 26,000 antlerless tags in 2008 in order to keep the herd stable. If they didn't then the DMAP harvested resulted in a further decrease in the herd in 2G.