The zec Casault is a "

zone d'exploitation contrôlée A ''zone d'exploitation contrôlée'' (; acronym ZEC) is a "Controlled harvesting zone" located in public lands areas of Quebec, in Canada. ZECs are a system of territorial infrastructures set up in 1978 by the Government of Quebec to take over fro ...

" (controlled harvesting zone) (ZEC), in La Matapedia Regional County Municipality and d'

Avignon Regional County Municipality Avignon () is a regional county municipality located in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat and largest city is Carleton-sur-Mer. It is on the Gaspé Peninsula, along Chaleur Bay. Subdivisions There are 13 su ...

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, Canada. The ZEC is located even in administrative regions of the

Bas-Saint-Laurent The Bas-Saint-Laurent (, 'Lower Saint-Lawrence) is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlan ...

and Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine. The territory of

hunting Hunting is the Human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products (fur/hide (sk ...

and recreative

fishing Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment (Freshwater ecosystem, freshwater or Marine ecosystem, marine), but may also be caught from Fish stocking, stocked Body of water, ...

of 838 km2 is managed by the "Corporation d'exploitation des ressources fauniques Vallée-de-la-Matapédia" (Corporation operating Wildlife Vallée-de-la-Matapedia). The administrative offices are located in ZEC Causapscal.

Toponymy

The name of the ZEC comes from the Cassault Township Casault, which itself was named in honor of

Louis-Napoléon Casault Sir Louis-Napoléon Casault (July 10, 1823 – May 18, 1908) was a Quebec lawyer, judge, professor and political figure. He represented Bellechasse in the 1st Canadian Parliament from 1867 to 1870 as a Conservative member. Biography He was ...

who was a member of Montmagny in the legislature of the

Province of Canada The Province of Canada (or the United Province of Canada or the United Canadas) was a British colony in British North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, in the Report ...

from 1854 to 1857 and MP in Bellechasse to the

House of Commons of Canada The House of Commons of Canada () is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Monarchy of Canada#Parliament (King-in-Parliament), Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of Ca ...

from 1867 to 1870.

History

ZEC Casault was established in 1978, following the abolition of private clubs. ZEC had 809 members in 2006.

Geography

Zec Casault has an area of 838 km2 located in the administrative regions of

and Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine; and La Matapedia Regional County Municipality and

. Its territory is included in the municipality of Saint-Alexandre-des-Lacs and non-organized Lac-Casault of Rivière-Nouvelle by Ruisseau-des-Mineurs and Routhierville. Zec shares its boundaries with Matane Wildlife Reserve and by Dunière Wildlife Reserve in the north and the Wildlife Reserve Rivers-Matapedia-Patapédia west.

Wildlife

ZEC Casault authorizes hunting small animal such as the

Hare Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus ''Lepus''. They are herbivores and live Solitary animal, solitarily or in pairs. They nest in slight depressions called forms, and their young are precociality, able to fend for themselves ...

, the

ruffed grouse The ruffed grouse (''Bonasa umbellus'') is a medium-sized grouse occurring in forests from the Appalachian Mountains across Canada to Alaska. It is the most widely distributed game bird in North America. It is non-migratory. It is the only spe ...

and

coyote The coyote (''Canis latrans''), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf, is a species of canis, canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the Wolf, gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the c ...

. In terms of big animal, Zec houses the

moose The moose (: 'moose'; used in North America) or elk (: 'elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (''Alces alces'') is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus ''Alces''. It is also the tal ...

deer A deer (: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family). Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) ...

and black bear. For its part, the most popular fishing is that of the

brook trout The brook trout (''Salvelinus fontinalis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus ''Salvelinus'' of the salmon family Salmonidae native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada. Two ecological forms of brook trout h ...

References

Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec)

"Zone d'exploitation contrôlée" (Controlled Harvesting Zones) (ZEC) to Ministry of Natural Resources of Quebec

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