The process of setting waterfowl hunting regulations is conducted annually in the United States. This process involves anumber of meetings where the status of waterfowl is reviewed by the agencies responsible for setting hunting regulations.In addition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) publishes proposed regulations in the Federal Register to allowpublic comment. This document is part of a series of reports intended to support development of harvest regulations for the2002 hunting season. Specifically, this report is intended to provide waterfowl managers and the public with informationabout the use of adaptive harvest management (AHM) for setting duck-hunting regulations in the United States. This reportprovides the most current data, analyses, and decision-making protocols. However, adaptive management is a dynamicprocess, and information presented in this report may differ from that in previous reports.