closed season

noun

a period, usually for a specific part of the year, during which angling or hunting for a given species is legally prohibited:
closed season on ducks.

Years ago at home, when I used to fish for bass, during the closed season I'd see thousands of duck and geese and deer.

The duchess didn't quite know whether mention of the closed season was or was not painfully pertinent.

Let us all who would have a closed season on mink, fox, skunk and muskrat get a petition to that effect and circulate it.

Let him know that you wish a law passed at the next legislature giving a closed season on fur bearing animals.

This objection has real weight, and should be overborne only by decided advantages to be gained from a closed season.

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