Best guess done nearly 20 years ago ......
Grizzly Overkill in B.C. Bear Management A. D. de Leeuw November 1999
| Year | Yearly | Yearly Kill | Yearly Kill | Yearly Kill | ||
| 0 | 133 | 400 | 536 | |||
| 1998 | 7819 | 7819 | 7819 | 7819 | ||
| 1999 | 8141 | 8003 | 7725 | 7583 | ||
| 2000 | 8477 | 8194 | 7626 | 7337 | ||
| 2001 | 8826 | 9393 | 7524 | 7082 | ||
| 2002 | 9189 | 8600 | 7418 | 6815 | ||
| 2003 | 9568 | 8816 | 7307 | 6538 | ||
| 2004 | 9962 | 9041 | 7191 | 6249 | ||
| 2005 | 10373 | 9275 | 7071 | 5949 | ||
| 2006 | 10800 | 9519 | 6946 | 5636 | ||
| 2007 | 11245 | 9772 | 6816 | 5310 | ||
| 2008 | 11708 | 10036 | 6680 | 4970 | ||
| 2009 | 12191 | 10311 | 6539 | 4617 | ||
| 2010 | 12693 | 10598 | 6392 | 4249 | ||
| 2011 | 13000 | 10896 | 6239 | 3866 | ||
| 2012 | 13000 | 11206 | 6079 | 3468 | ||
| 2013 | 13000 | 11530 | 5913 | 3052 | ||
| 2014 | 13000 | 11866 | 5740 | 2620 | ||
| 2015 | 13000 | 12217 | 5560 | 2170 | ||
| 2016 | 13000 | 12581 | 5373 | 1701 | ||
| 2017 | 13000 | 12961 | 5178 | 1213 | ||
| 2018 | 13000 | 13000 | 4975 | 705 | ||
| 2019 | 13000 | 13000 | 4763 | 176 | ||
| 2020 | 13000 | 13000 | 4543 | 0 | ||
| 2021 | 13000 | 13000 | 4313 | 0 | ||
| 2022 | 13000 | 13000 | 4075 | 0 | ||
| 2023 | 13000 | 13000 | 3826 | 0 | ||
| 2024 | 13000 | 13000 | 3567 | 0 | ||
| 2025 | 13000 | 13000 | 3298 | 0 | ||
| 2026 | 13000 | 13000 | 3017 | 0 | ||
| 2027 | 13000 | 13000 | 2725 | 0 | ||
| 2028 | 13000 | 13000 | 2421 | 0 | ||
| 2029 | 13000 | 13000 | 2104 | 0 | ||
| 2030 | 13000 | 13000 | 1774 | 0 | ||
| 2031 | 13000 | 13000 | 1431 | 0 | ||
| 2032 | 13000 | 13000 | 1073 | 0 | ||
| 2033 | 13000 | 13000 | 701 | 0 | ||
| 2034 | 13000 | 13000 | 313 | 0 | ||
| 2035 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2036 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2037 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2038 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2039 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2040 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2041 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2042 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2043 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2044 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2045 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2046 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2047 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2048 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2049 | 13000 | 13000 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 637992 | 618634 | 182055 | 99125 |
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December 18, 2017
Vancouver Sun's Larry Pynn:
The hunting of grizzly bears for trophies and food is banned effective immediately across B.C., the NDP government announced Monday in a major policy shift.
“Protecting this iconic species is simply the right thing to do,” Minister of Environment George Heyman told a news conference in Vancouver. Snip
In 2016, hunters in B.C. killed 235 grizzlies — 30 per cent of them females — out of a population estimated by the province at 15,000. Snip
.... Of those bears – an estimated 329 each year – 87 per cent have been killed by licensed hunters, with other kills attributed to causes including the shooting of problem bears by conservation officers, illegal poaching and collisions with cars and trains. ... Snip
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http://www.bcauditor.com/pubs/2017/independent-audit-grizzly-bear-management
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