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Commercial Kangaroo harvest quotas - South Australia

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Commercial Kangaroo Harvest Quotas - South Australia
Year Macropus rufus
(Red Kangaroo)		 M. fuliginosus
(Western Grey)		 M. robustus
(Euro/ Wallaroo)		 Total Year
1975 64,000 12,000 4,000 80,000 1975
1976 64,000 12,000 4,000 80,000 1976
1977 56,000 12,000 12,000 80,000 1977
1978 55,000 24,000 1,000 80,000 1978
1979 78,000 25,000 1,000 104,000 1979
1980 148,000 50,000 2,000 200,000 1980
1981 197,500 44,000 8,500 250,000 1981
1982 328,000 64,000 8,000 400,000 1982
1983 239,000 58,000 3,000 300,000 1983
1984 115,000 22,000 6,000 143,000 1984
1985 117,400 9,000 8,600 135,000 1985
1986 180,000 34,600 12,000 226,600 1986
1987 180,000 30,900 16,500 227,400 1987
1988 146,600 31,700 16,500 194,800 1988
1989 260,400 33,000 16,500 309,900 1989
1990 276,300 36,850 16,500 329,650 1990
1991 408,600 31,700 28,500 468,800 1991
1992 317,700 35,500 28,500 381,700 1992
1993 290,400 48,600 28,500 367,500 1993
1994 286,500 55,600 28,500 370,600 1994
1995 296,800 95,500 28,500 420,800 1995
1996 442,000 115,000 75,000 632,000 1996
1997 555,000 280,000 103,000 938,000 1997
1998 327,000 206,000 88,000 621,000 1998
1999 441,500 212,000 88,000 741,500 1999
Year Macropus rufus
(Red Kangaroo)		 M. fuliginosus
(Western Grey)		 M. robustus
(Euro/ Wallaroo)		 Total Year

* NOTE: In 1996, South Australia refined the setting of the commercial harvest quota to provide for the separate identification of a sustainable use component to the quota and an additional land management component. This latter component will be released only when there is an identified threat to land management goals in an area and the sustainable component of the quota has been taken. Individual management strategies are being developed for each management district and these will be progressively refined during 1997. (See the one year table for 1997 and 1998 for the breakdown between sustainable use and land management components in 1997.)

Kangaroos Killed Under Commercial Harvest Quotas - South Australia
Year Macropus rufus
(Red Kangaroo)		 M. fuliginosus
(Western Grey)		 M. robustus
(Euro/ Wallaroo)		 Total Year
1974-75 32,760 10,482 435 43,677 1974-75
1975-76 25,894 8,285 345 34,524 1975-76
1976-77 45,525 14,568 605 60,698 1976-77
July'77-Dec'78 101,997 32,639 1,360 135,996 July 77-Dec 78
1979 69,926 22,376 932 93,234 1979
1980 111,247 35,600 1,482 148,329 1980
1981 145,000 46,400 1,926 193,326 1981
1982 172,100 55,066 2,287 229,453 1982
1983 116,840 37,390 1,555 155,785 1983
1984 83,469 9,898 5,907 99,274 1984
1985 98,557 9,043 7,043 114,643 1985
1986 112,789 9,987 6,147 128,923 1986
1987 100,507 14,849 9,167 124,523 1987
1988 118,232 13,778 8,892 140,902 1988
1989 124,173 11,546 5,756 141,475 1989
1990 172,793 18,593 7,014 198,400 1990
1991 213,628 14,533 8,966 237,127 1991
1992 219,338 18,999 11,252 249,589 1992
1993 227,056 32,798 18,436 278,290 1993
1994 278,346 50,803 22,479 351,628 1994
1995 276,492 65,241 19,367 361,100 1995
1996 253,934 75,362 27,413 356,709 1996
1997 216,079 75,794 24,067 315,940 1997
1998 227,904 73,704 24,981 326,589 1998
Year Macropus rufus
(Red Kangaroo)		 M. fuliginosus
(Western Grey)		 M. robustus
(Euro/ Wallaroo)		 Total Year

* No species details 1974-1983; approximate proportions of each species.