Australia's largest kangaroo meat processor for human consumption has criticised the ACT Government's culling practices as "wasteful"' and called for commercial harvesting in the Territory's parks and reserves.

The call comes as ACT reserves reopened to the public after the end of the Government's 2015 kangaroo cull.

South Australian business Macro Meats processes 200 tonnes of game meat for human consumption each week and the majority is kangaroo.

Managing director and founder of the business Ray Borda said consumer demand for the wild protein has continued to grow.

"Within Australia in the retail sector over the last 5 years it [consumer demand] has grown roughly around 400 per cent," he said.

Macro Meats only process male kangaroos, known as bucks, and at least half are shot in New South Wales.

Mr Borda said up to 400,000 kangaroo bucks from NSW were processed annually depending on season and commercial harvest quotas.

There was no shortage of kangaroo available nationwide according to Mr Borda but that has not stopped him from making a controversial pitch for commercial shooting in ACT Parks and Reserves.

"If it was taken care of by the commercial industry it wouldn't be a money-making circumstance," Mr Borda said.

"When you have national parks, we call them nurseries because what actually happens is nobody can go into those and cull and keep the numbers under control."

The kangaroo meat exporter has criticised the ACT Government's culling practices and what he calls a lack of transparency.

Mr Borda takes issue with the cost of the Government's contract shooters, the short winter culling season and the targeting of adults irrespective of gender.

He was also opposed to the burial of the majority of kangaroo carcasses in the ACT.

"It is just a waste," Mr Borda said.

"It is a waste of money and it is a waste of protein."

Animal Liberation's Carolyn Drew said many Canberrans would reject a commercial kangaroo killing industry being established. ( ABC News: Adrienne Francis )

The most vehement opponents of the Government's cull were also opposed to the idea of commercial harvesting of kangaroos.

"I don't think the community would like to see a commercial killing industry set up and I think many people would take umbrage with that," Animal Liberation ACT spokeswoman Carolyn Drew said.

Territory and Municipal Services Minister Shane Rattenbury said the cull in ACT reserves was too small to accommodate commercial kangaroo harvesting.

"The ACT Government has no interest in having a commercial kangaroo harvest here in the Territory," he said.

Final figures from ACT's annual kangaroo cull

In a statement, the Government said 1,689 adult kangaroos and 701 joeys were killed in the annual cull.

The majority of joeys were very small, unfurred pouched young.

Most of the culled kangaroos were buried however 8 per cent of carcasses were used to make baits for wild dog and fox control programs.

The 9 reserves where kangaroo shooting had been conducted were reopened to the public today.

The Government praised the current shooting contractors for working safely and effectively without any incidents.