Table 6. Duck Kill and Hunter Activity in the Atlantic Flyway 
Daily Daily Daily Daily Average 
Percent Percent Percent Number of 
of of Hunting of Ducks Ducks 
Period Days Season Activity Bagged Bagged 
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 
1 1-7 2.22 3.17 3.79 1.18 
2 8-14 2,22 2.69 2.50 92 
3 15-21 2.22 va 1.86 83 
4 22-28 2.22 2.14 1.87 . 86 
5 29-35 2622 2.03 1.89 92 
6 36-45 2.22 1,43 1.67 1.15 
Inhe average number of periods per hunter was 1.44 
Explanatory Comments for Table 6 
The hunting season was 40 days long in some States of the 
Atlantic Flyway and 50 days long in other States. Data for the 
two lengths of season are given separately in Tables 6A and 6B. 
Data are combined in Table 6, 
For the Flyway as a whole, each day is 2.22% of the total 
(Table 6, 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 
6A and 6B. 
Daily hunting activity (Table 6, Column 4) decreased during 
the season. Half of the hunting in the Atlantic Flyway (combined 
data) was done by the time 40 per cent of the season was over, and 
60 per cent was done by the time the season was half over. This was 
similar to the pattern of hunting activity in the Mississippi Flyway 
(40 and 50 days) and the Central Flyway (50 and 60 days) but in con- 
trast 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 through 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 
