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Been asked to do some nuisance beaver trapping in a WMU within the MNR Aurora office district.
My trapping license is for Bancroft district only, where my trap line is.
Nuisance trapping laws are very vague and hard to find online, which is good and bad.
Need to be by the book on this contracted work.
I would need to contact Aurora district office to request second license to do nuisance trapping in their WMU's, correct?
Is it on private property.? Then can't you just get listed as an 'agent' of the landowner ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Tuna
Contact the district's fur tech to confirm the process but if this is private land in another zone then you would get the landowner agreement signed and fill out the trapper license form and send everything to them. Once approved, you'll either get the paperwork back or they'll forward it to OFMF to process the additional license. You'll have to pay the fee of 39.55Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Tuna
This would be a possibility if he only plans to use a firearm. If he wants to use traps he'll have to get a valid license for that area.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikePal
Thanks....Quote:
Originally Posted by sevennine
If you're being paid to do the removal...and used a firearm, can you still keep the pelt ?
Yes you can keep the pelt of a furbearer that you killed protecting property but you must get a notice of possession. The same applies to a trapper that kills out of season. I had to get a notice of possession for a few beavers I caught prior to open season helping a farmer out. They were nice and big so I decided to keep the pelts to sell them.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikePal
You can trap anywhere in the province if it is for nuisance removal. It does not have to be in your assigned fur management zone that is specified on your licence. A different story if it's just regular trapping. You'd need to purchase a second licence if this was the case. I held two licences for many years.
That was my understanding when I trapped in the Durham region, and was referred to do some nuisance trapping outside my zone...
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Originally Posted by Fenelon
I stand corrected. Thanks for the info. I always thought we were limited to our zone, even for nuisance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenelon
It would be contracted nuisance trapping on private property. The landowner permission form will be given.
Will stop in at a MNR District office to ask if a secondary license is needed for the secondary district trapping, or if I can do nuisance trapping throughout Ontario even though my license states Bancroft District only.
I do know any beaver caught doing nuisance trapping cannot be used towards my quota. Hope they don't accidently get mixed into my count (wink, wink).
I suspect a secondary license will be required, will specifically ask that it not have a quota associated with it.
Will even need to complete a work safety risk assessment form for the client before proceeding on this commercial land.
No firearm's required.
Big Tuna you do not need any secondary licence for nuisance work anywhere in the province. All you need is the written permission from the landowner, snowmobile club, or the county works dept. (if you're doing nusiance beaver for the roads dept.). Your Bancroft licence is good for the whole province. A good thing that you don't have to buy the second licence for 40 bucks, as it would take a dozen beaver to recover the cost !
Thanks Fenelon. Every trapper I know said the same.
Is great to not need to worry about the extra license for each district.
I think on crown land up north, industry, CP, CN, municipality’s etc. contact MNRF and they contact the trapper that owns the trap line where the nuisance beaver are, if they can’t contact the trapper they assign another who has to buy a licence for the other trap line. That licence cost and nuisance beaver removal, per km rate is charged to whoever ask for the service.
After much research and asking around i finally did find in print the answers I was looking for on nuisance trapping.
When doing nuisance trapping, is best to refer to yourself as an Agent and not a Trapper to note the differences.
Didn't realize there was such a difference between the two.
When working as an Agent, if you do not have a current trappers license, then you can only do catch and release for nuisance fur bearing animals.
If you have any trappers license, regardless of where it is valid for and its limitations, as an Agent you can now use body gripping traps to retire the nuisance fur bearing animals.
From one official reply, it was recommended that is best for some situations to ask MNR district office for a Private Land License so that Beavers furs can be recorded to the correct zone where removed from.
Was interesting to see some other rules I wasn't aware of:
Is illegal to be paid a bounty working as an Agent. Example: You cannot charge $200 per beaver removed but you can charge $200 per visit to work as an Agent.
You are allowed an exemption to use a Rim fire gun to dispatch animals at night. Gun must be a rim fire, must be incased until needed and must be incased again after use, but can take the shot in the dark.