TPW Commission rescinds air gun/bow rule
Photo: Shannon Tompkins / Houston Chronicle The package of 2018-19 hunting and fishing regulations the TPW Commission cleared for final adoption includes a Sept. 14 opening of the general dove season in Texas’ South Zone. It will be the earliest opening day of the season in the state’s most dove-rich region since at least 1940. Texas hunters won’t know until late August if they will be able to employ guns and bows that use compressed gas to propel projectiles to take white-tailed deer and certain other game when the 2018-19 hunting seasons begin this autumn. But they can be sure of dates, bag limits and other hunting-related rules for the upcoming seasons, including an opening date of the general dove season in Texas’ South Dove Zone that will be the earliest since at least 1940. State’s anglers can be clear on changes to fishing regulations aimed at reducing, standardizing and simplifying some special regulations currently governing harvest of black bass in more than a dozen Texas lakes, including changes that will allow the harvest of bass in two catch-and-release-only fisheries. Last week, two months after the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission’s unprecedented move of delaying required final posting of 2018-19 hunting and fishing regulations the group unanimously approved at its March meeting, the regulations package finally is headed for official adoption. That adoption, which requires publication of the hunting/fishing rules in Texas Register, is pending after the nine-member commission stripped the regulations package of provisions allowing the use of […]
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