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Newfoundland Regulation 1998


NEWFOUNDLAND REGULATION 12/98

NEWFOUNDLAND REGULATION 12/98

Open Season Spring Big Game Black Bear Hunting and
Snaring Order,
Newfoundland, 1998
under the
Wild Life Regulations
and the
Wild Life Act

(Filed December 31, 1997)

Under the authority of sections 38 and 114 of the Wild Life Regulations and the Wild Life Act, I make the following Order.

Dated at St. John's, December 24, 1997.

Kevin Aylward
Minister of
Forest Resources and Agrifoods

ORDER

Analysis


        1.   Short title

        2.   Spring open season

        3.   Devices permitted

        4.   Prohibited devices

        5.   Bag limits

        6.   Validity of licence

        7.   Prohibition

        8.   Repeal


Short title

        1. This Order may be cited as the Open Season Spring Big Game Black Bear Hunting and Snaring Order, Newfoundland, 1998.

Spring open season

        2. (1) The spring open season for the hunting and snaring of black bear shall be April 25, 1998 to June 27, 1998 in all moose management areas except as follows:

 

 

                      Area No.      Season Dates

                      1                    No Open Season

                      31                  No Open Season

                      32                  No Open Season

                      33                  No Open Season

                      34                  No Open Season

                      35                  No Open Season

                      36                  No Open Season

                      38                  No Open Season

                      43                  No Open Season

                      44                  No Open Season

                      45                  No Open Season

                      47                  No Open Season

             (2)  The moose management areas referred to in subsection (1) are described in the Open Season Big Game Moose Hunting Order, Newfoundland, 1997-98 except that Moose Management Area 28 is further described, for black bear hunting only, to exclude:

All that area of the Island of Newfoundland located in the district of Terra Nova, commencing at a point in the centre of the land-fill site at the northwestern edge of Terra Nova National Park;

Then extending to a radius of 2 kilometres from that point in all directions, with an area of approximately 1,250 hectares and a perimeter of approximately 12,543 metres.

Devices permitted

        3. Only Aldrich foot snares or similar devices may be set for the taking of black bears and those devices shall be set in a covered “cubby set” and clearly marked with a warning sign indicating that a bear snaring device is set in the “cubby”.

Prohibited devices

        4. Steel-jaw leghold, spring or jump traps shall not be used to take black bears.

Bag limits

        5. (1) The bag limit shall be 2 black bears of any age or sex.

             (2)  Notwithstanding subsection (1), female black bears accompanied by cubs may not be taken by shooting.

Validity of licence

        6. Each spring season black bear licence shall be valid only for the area for which it is issued.

Prohibition

        7. A person shall not transport or possess any firearms under the authority of a valid game licence without being in possession of an outdoor identification card, or non-resident equivalent card, issued to the person.

Repeal

        8. The Open Season, Spring, Big Game, Black Bear, Hunting and Snaring Order, Newfoundland, 1997, Newfoundland Regulation 95/96, is repealed.