The 2012 Black Bear hunting season in New Jersey is possibly in jeopardy and will be decide by a judge. Two animal rights group have sued the state saying that the information used to report bear-human incidents are unreliable and lead to incorrect population counts. They claim this has but too many pregnant females at risk.
These two animal rights groups challenges the policy that allows for a 6 day hunt in New Jersey. Last year that failed to stop the season which ended up with 592 bears killed but the lawsuit was allowed to continue and now is at risk of ending the 2012 hunt.
The 2011 bear hunting season in New Jersey was the first in 5 years and has not happened since 2007 when a lawsuit stopped that season claiming that flaws in the management should have stopped hunting sooner.
Oral arguments on 11/29/11 go before a three judge panel focused on the Division of Fish and wildlife and their bear management policy.
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No one has any right to stop anyone from hunting anything, especially if those hunting are properly using that which is harvested.