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Nature's do-not-disturb sign, enforced by law instead of manners.
means A legally defined period when hunting, fishing, or harvesting certain species is banned so populations can breed and recover.
from Rooted in English game law, where 'season' marked the stretch of calendar when hunting a species was permitted. 'Close' comes from the old legal sense of 'closed' or 'forbidden' — the same root behind 'close' as in sealed off, via Latin claudere, 'to shut.' So a closed season is literally a shut season: the gate on hunting swings closed until the law reopens it.
- origin
- medieval hunting law protecting breeding seasons
- irony
- humans need permission to pause killing
- scope
- covers fish, game, even shellfish
- violation
- poaching during it carries real fines