2024 CWA End of Season Survey

Welcome to the 2024 CWA End of Season Survey. You may notice that we reduced the number of questions significantly for this year’s survey to focus only on waterfowl seasons and bag limit issues. Please note that one survey participant will be randomly selected to receive an awesome: YETI ROADIE® 48 WHEELED COOLER retails for $400! This survey is only 17 questions and should take less than ten minutes to complete.

California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will also be sending out a waterfowl hunter survey shortly, which will be largely focused on issues related to accessing and hunting on public lands. We encourage you to take the CDFW survey to ensure that they capture the opinions and preferences of our members.


1.In the Balance of State, Southern San Joaquin and Southern California Zones, would you prefer moving the Veterans/Active Military hunt to the first weekend in February, with the Youth hunt occurring on the second weekend in February?
2.For the 2024-25 season in the Balance of State, Southern San Joaquin and Southern California Zones, would you be in favor of ending the regular season on the last Sunday in January (rather than January 31st) to give more days of rest before the post-season Youth hunt?
3.For the 2024-25 season in the Balance of State, Southern San Joaquin and Southern California Zones, would you be in favor of ending the regular season on the last Wednesday in January (rather than January 31st) to give more days of rest before the post-season Youth hunt?
4.In the Balance of State, Southern San Joaquin and Southern California Zones, would you be in favor of alternating the timing of the Youth and Veterans Active Military hunts every other year as to which hunt occurs first?
5.In the Northeast Zone, would you be in favor of moving the Veterans/Active Military hunt to the weekend before the regular season opener?
6.Would you be in favor of moving the Veterans/Active Military hunt to a weekend during the regular season (which would make that weekend closed to the rest of the hunting public) (Please answer for each zone)?
7.In the NE Zone, would you be in favor of increasing the Canada goose limit to 3-4 birds per day?
8.Would you be in favor of starting the NE Zone regular season on the first weekend of October or the second weekend of October?
9.Should the Southern San Joaquin Valley Zone’s regular season starting and ending dates always run concurrently with the Balance of State Zone, or should it open earlier and include a split season?
10.In the Balance of State Zone, would you be in favor of taking days away from the regular season for Canada geese and transferring them to the early and/or late goose season to extend those seasons?
11.For 2024/25 season, would you support closing the Balance of State Zone regular goose season on all geese species (Canadas, whites, specs) for 5 consecutive week days in mid-late November (on a Monday – Friday) to allow 5 days to be added to the end of BOS Zone regular goose season (Canadas, whites, specs) so that the BOS Zone goose season closes same day as duck season? Note that this would reduce hunt days for whitefronts in the Sacramento Valley Special Management Area.
12.In the North Coast Special Management Area, would you be in favor of the large Canada goose season running concurrently with duck season (therefore closing on the same day at the end of January)?
13.In the North Coast Special Management Area, would you prefer the season on small Canada geese (i.e. Aleutians) open a week later on the second Saturday in October and extend a week later in December?
14.Would you like to see any additional restrictions on the use of spinning winged decoys?
15.Should CWA work to clarify the regulation regarding when possession (limit) has ended for legally harvested waterfowl and other migratory birds?
16.Should CWA work to clarify/change in regulation regarding when identification requirements (i.e. head or feathered wing) has ended for transporting legally harvested waterfowl or other migratory birds?
17.Please list the 1-2 top priorities that you would like to see addressed with waterfowl seasons and bag limit regulatory issues.
18.If you would like to be entered into our drawing for the YETI 48 Roadie Cooler please put in your email address below.