The following schedule is from the 72nd Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies which was held October 21-24, 2018 in Mobile, Alabama.
AUTHORS: Ritchie Jenkins, Missouri Department of Conservation; Lowell Ballard, Timmons Group
ABSTRACT: The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) includes Wildlife, Fisheries and Protection (enforcement) Divisions. Over the past several years, MDC has worked extremely hard to create effective mobile solutions for both Hunting and Fishing targeted at the public. The MO Hunting application enables Missouri hunters, and trappers to purchase, view, and store annual hunting, fishing, and trapping permits and associated details and “notch” their permit and Telecheck their harvest while offline. MO Fishing offers many similar capabilities.MDC Protection Agents desired to have a mobile solution to support enforcement efforts in the field. To support this, MDC created MO Agent Web and Mobile. These applications allow MDC Agents to scan barcodes from hunters and fisherman, review telecheck and permit history, issue warnings, and establish alerts for short-checks and other suspicious activities. Recently MDC also added Incident Reporting to the suite of tools. This talk will review the entire portfolio of Hunting and mobile enforcement tools for MDC.
