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2010-94 - Fish and Wildlife Act

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NEW BRUNSWICK
REGULATION 2010-94
under the
Fish and Wildlife Act
(O.C. 2010-319)
Filed June 10, 2010
1Section 2 of New Brunswick Regulation 84-124 under the Fish and Wildlife Act is amended by adding the following definition in alphabetical order:
“restraining trap” means a spring driven jaw-type trap intended to hold an animal by the leg and designed to prevent self-mutilation;
2Section 4 of the Regulation is amended
(a) in paragraph (1)(c) in the portion preceding subparagraph (i) by striking out “subsections (1.1)” and substituting “subsections (1.1), (1.11)”;
(b) by adding after subsection (1.1) the following:
4(1.11)A minor’s fur harvester’s licence does not entitle the holder to trap or snare a fur bearing animal without being accompanied by an adult at all times unless the holder
(a) is twelve years of age or over but under sixteen years of age,
(b) successfully completes
(i) a trapper education course completed in the Province approved by the Minister, or
(ii) a trapper education course completed in another province or territory of Canada or a state of the United States of America recognized by the Minister, and
(c) carries proof that he or she has successfully completed the trapper education course.
(c) in subsection (4) by adding after paragraph (f.3) the following:
(f.4) use a trap for the trapping of raccoon during the period from the first day of October to the last Saturday in October, inclusively, unless the trap is a restraining trap prescribed in Schedule A.1 for that wildlife species and is used under the conditions prescribed in Schedule A.1.
(d) by repealing subsection (4.1) and substituting the following:
4(4.1)A holder of a fur harvester’s licence, a rabbit licence, a minor’s fur harvester’s licence or a minor’s rabbit licence shall check every restraining trap, leg hold trap, box trap or leg snare, excluding drowning sets, set or placed by him or her at least once every forty-eight hours after the setting or placing of the restraining trap, leg hold trap, box trap or leg snare and shall immediately remove from the restraining trap, leg hold trap, box trap or leg snare any wildlife taken by it.
(e) in paragraph (4.6)(c) by striking out “a person who is nineteen years of age or over” and substituting “an adult”.
3Subsection 4.02(1) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “removing the bobcat from the trap or snare” and substituting “immediately upon taking possession of a bobcat”.
4The Regulation is amended by adding, after Schedule A, the attached Schedule A.1.
5Schedule B of the Regulation is repealed and the attached Schedule B is substituted.
Commencement
6Paragraph 2(b) of this Regulation comes into force on September 1, 2011.
SCHEDULE A.1
SPECIES AND
CONDITIONS
OF USE
RESTRAINING TRAPS
 
RACCOON
Duffer’s Raccoon Trap
Lil Grizz Get’rz
SCHEDULE B
OPEN SEASONS
Wildlife
management
zones
 
Species of
fur bearing
animal
Activity
Start of open season
Close of open season
1 to 27
Rabbit
Hunting, Snaring
October 1
Last day in February
Squirrel
Hunting
October 1
Last day in February
Raccoon
Trapping, Hunting
October 1 
Last day in December
Hunting with hounds
First Monday in August
Last day in December
Mink
Trapping
Last Saturday in October 
Last day in January
Weasel
Trapping
Last Saturday in October
Last day in February
Skunk
Hunting
Last Saturday in October
Last day in December
Muskrat
Trapping (Fall)
Last Saturday in October
Last day in January
Muskrat
Trapping (Spring)
Saturday of third week of March
 
May 15
Otter
Trapping, Snaring
Last Saturday in October
Last day in January
Beaver
Trapping
Last Saturday in October
Last day in January
Beaver
Snaring
Last Saturday in October
Last day in February
1 to 26
Coyote
Fox
Trapping, Hunting
October 1
Last day in February
Snaring
Saturday of second week in November
 
Last day in February
1 to 25
Bobcat
Trapping, Snaring, Hunting
Saturday of second week in November
 
Last day in February
1 to 13, 16, 17
Fisher Marten Skunk Squirrel
Trapping
Last Saturday of November
2 consecutive weeks (second Saturday thereafter)
14, 15, 18 to 27
Fisher
Skunk
Squirrel
Trapping
Last Saturday of November
3 consecutive weeks (third Saturday thereafter)