When are the harvest data reports released? How accurate do you feel they are? I know I was not contacted on my last 4 tags 2 in 2018 and 2 in 2020. My son was not contacted on either of his 2 tags in 2018. Just wondering about others thoughts.
Hey just figured I would point out the tooth ages got released last week, so that's cool data to check out. I'd imagine they aren't far behind with harvest reports.
In reference to accuracy - when you either look at 2019 or read the 2020 reports, you can scroll all the way to the bottom of the PDF and find confidence intervals for their harvest rates. In 2019,
most harvest data was within 2.5-3.5%. So a harvest rate of 30% could have been 27.5-33.5%. Pretty negligible for management decisions. Check it out on the next report and maybe it'll give you more confidence in the harvest rates for the unit(s) you're applying for.