freediver wrote on Feb 4
th, 2017 at 9:02am:
There is already a large and growing market for kangaroo meat from culled wild kangaroos. People will actually pay for the right to harvest them. This makes no sense at all. It reminds me of the idiots who want us to sterilise and release feral cats.
There are around 250 shooters licensed for commercial Kangaroo harvesting in NSW. These licenses are not cheap you must have your vehicle inspected it has to comply with regs on transporting meat so does your chiller.
In most states you need permits and tags for non commercial shooting of Roos they must be left to rot where they drop, aborigines are exempt from this.
Quote:5.1 Non commercial shooting
Non commercial shooting is many faceted, involving the 'shoot and let lie' licensing system available in all 4 states.
5.1.1
There were also complaints that the practice of issuing damage mitigation licenses to landholders took Kangaroos away from potential commercial use, ie Kangaroos were left to waste on the ground.Professional Kangaroo shooters argue that approximately 100,000 Kangaroos known to be killed non commercially should have been commercially utilised.5.1.3
It is also put forward that, as an alternative, there should be no damage mitigation licensing system, ie all Kangaroos should be killed by commercial Kangaroo shooters and the carcasses sold to processors.
This opinion comes not only from shooters and processors, who see the shoot-and-let-lie policy as wasteful and cruel, but also the results from government inquiriesenvironment.gov.au/biodiversity/wildlife-trade/publications/kangaroo-shooting-co... We need to allow the farmers who cull Kangaroos under damage mitigation permits and tags to harvest the meat and skins instead of leaving them to rot where they fall, if a non commercial roo shooter (ie farmer/landowner) legally shoots a Roo it must be tagged and left to rot where it falls, if that person hires a licensed commercial kangaroo shooter then the meat and skins can be harvested.
I recently saw a Roo that was seriously injured by a car, I had 2 rifles in the boot of my car and couldn't euthanize it because that would be a serious offence to use my guns for that which will result in loss of firearms license,
I had to let the Roo suffer because our laws don't allow me to do the humane thing in situations like that.
Really..well who is going to extract the projectile from the animals skull and track you down-no one is the answer to both questions. You didnt have to let to it suffer !!! You do not let an animal suffer under any circumstance, for any reason.