NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR REGULATION 66/22

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 66/22

Open Seasons Hunting and Trapping Order, 2022-2023 (Amendment)
under the
Wild Life Regulations
and the
Wild Life Act

(Filed September 8, 2022)

Under the authority of sections 16, 25, 27, 38, 39, 73, 81.2 and 114 of the Wild Life Regulations and the Wild Life Act, I make the following Order.

Dated at St. John’s, September 8, 2022.

Tracy King
Deputy Minister of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture

ORDER

Analysis

NLR 55/22

1. Section 13 of the Open Seasons Hunting and Trapping Order, 2022-2023 is repealed and the following substituted:

Small game - Labrador

13. (1) The open season for the shooting of small game in Labrador shall be

Arctic hare	October 1, 2022 to April 20, 2023
Snowshoe hare	October 1, 2022 to April 20, 2023
Ptarmigan	October 1, 2022 to April 20, 2023
Ruffed grouse, spruce grouse	October 1, 2022 to April 20, 2023
Porcupine	October 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023
Red squirrel	October 1, 2022 to April 20, 2023

(2) The open season for the snaring of small game in Labrador shall be

Arctic hare	October 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023
Snowshoe hare	October 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023
Ptarmigan	October 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023
Ruffed grouse, spruce grouse	October 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023

2. (1) Subsection 14(2) of the Order is amended by deleting the words "varying hare and".

(2) Section 14 of the Order is amended by adding immediately after subsection (4) the following:

(4.1) The open season for the shooting of red squirrel on the Island of Newfoundland shall be

(a) October 1, 2022 to December 25, 2022 on Great Island;

(b) October 1, 2022 to November 6, 2022 on Little Bay Islands; and

(c) October 1, 2022 to March 12, 2023 on the remainder of the Island of Newfoundland except Bell Island in Conception Bay.

(3) Subsection 14(5) of the Order is amended by deleting the words "varying hare and".