Why the bear hunt could be cut short State Fish and Game laws require the bear hunt to be stopped if it reaches a 30% harvest rate − the percentage of bears killed out of the total marked in the ...

Some said hunting doesn't help cut down on human-bear interactions and called for non-lethal methods of population management and more education. FWC officials are working on a 10-year bear ...

Florida ended black bear hunting in 1994, but opened it for a month in October 2015, only to end it in two days after 304 bears were harvested.Now, proposals are in the works for one this December ...