
Table 9. Duck Kill and Hunting Activity in the Mississippi Flyway 

Daily Daily Daily Daily Average 
Percent Percent Percent Number of 
of of Huntin of Ducks Ducks 
Period Days Season Activity Bagged Bagged 
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 
1 1-7 2.22 3.13 4.10 1.46 
2 8-14 2.22 2.73 2.52 1,02 
3 15-21 2.22 2.66 2.31 97 
4 22-28 2,22 2.25 1,99 .98 
5 29-35 2.22 1.94 1.76 1.01 
6 36-45 222 1.10 1.12 1.13 

lohe average number of periods per hunter was 1.87. 
Explanatory Comments for Table 9 
The hunting season was 40 days long in some States of the 
Mississippi Flyway and 50 days long in other States. Data for 
the two lengths of season are given separately in Tables 9A and 
9B. Data are combined in Table 9, 
For the Flyway as a whole, each day is 2.22% of the total 
(Table 9, Column 3). Therefore, any daily percentage (in Columns 
4 or 5) that differs from 2.22 is correspondingly greater or lesser 
than the average for that characteristic. The average rates for 
the States with 40 or 50-day seasons are shown in Column 3 of Tables 
9A and 9B. 
Daily hunting activity (Table 9, Column 4) decreased during the 
season. Half of the hunting in the Mississippi Flyway (combined 
data) was done by the time 40 per cent of the season was over, and 
63 per cent was done by the time the season was half over. This 
was similar to the pattern of hunting activity in the Atlantic 
Flyway (40 and 50 days) and the Central Flyway (50 and 60 days) but 
in contrast to the Pacific Flyway (94 days) where half of the season 
was over before half the hunting was done. 
Daily percentages of the total duck bag also declined during 
the season. 
Hunters bagged ducks throughout the season, but hunting activity 
was not well coordinated with the daily average bag, as can be seen 
by comparing Column 4 with Column 6, The highest rate of hunting 
activity occurred when the daily average bag was greatest (first 
