BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 2, 2021
The season isn’t quite over, but this year’s moose harvest is likely to be among Maine’s lowest ever in terms of the percentage of tags filled. Through Sunday, 2,539 moose had been tagged among 3,790 permits so far, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s Big Game Harvest Dashboard. With 240 permits still in play this fall, only 67 percent of hunters have successfully shot a moose. It is possible 2021 will wind up being one of the least successful years, in terms of percentage of permits filled, in the 41 years the state has sponsored a moose hunt since 1980.