Residents in New Brunswick’s Kennebecasis Valley deal with deer on a daily basis and now council is stepping up and saying a solution needs to be found.
“Always getting letters from citizens complaining that they cannot have a vegetable garden, flower garden, the deer are just taking over,” says Rothesay Mayor Bill Bishop.
Bishop says the overpopulation of deer is an ongoing problem that needs to find a solution. He believes the only way to correct the number of deer in the area is to have a cull.
“That’s probably not something most people would favour,” says Bishop. “The other thing that has been mentioned is to anaesthetize the deer and ship them off to Cape Breton, or northern New Brunswick, where there is a scarcity,” says Bishop.
Quispamsis resident Ryan Murphy says he’s not sure how he feels about a cull as a solution to the problem.
“I’d prefer to see a fence in my yard to keep them out, but I don’t think they need to be killed,” says Murphy. “I think it’s certainly becoming an issue with people moving out to the valley and more construction.”
Residents in Rothesay, Quispamsis and Hampton just completed a survey on the deer issue. Results showed there are high concerns with safety, the fear of Lyme disease and damage.
Bishop says he plans to send the results of the survey to the Department of Natural Resources.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Ashley Dunbar
