After a fortnight of freezing conditions across most of the UK in late November/early December, wildfowling bans in Northern Ireland and Scot- land were introduced - but a scheduled ban in England and Wales did not occur because of the thaw before severe weather resumed. Statutory bans on the shooting of all quarry species of ducks and geese were imposed in Northern Ireland on 9th December and i...

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