Game registraion-required in your province?

Ed Smurf

Ed Smurf

CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Rating - 100%
10   0   0
Location
KZ Quebec
Just curious if other provinces have a registration system such as Quebec has for big game (deer/moose/caribou/bear/wild turkey). Here it is obligatory. Got my doe 175lb (on the hoof) opening day Quebec antlerless muzzeloading season.. This is the form you are given when you register. Your license is taken from you, and of course you pay a $6.50 fee . This provides excellent statistics I presume...not counting poachers.Lots of info there.






Check these up to date stats


http://www.mffp.gouv.qc.ca/english/...statistics/hunting-trapping/cerf-ang-2015.pdf
 
Last edited:
In BC there is some mandatory inspection for certain animals.
Some Limited Entry Hunts, some general season hunts and specific species too.
Interesting they are asking for GPS coordinates ....
But, I suppose a bean counter has to justify his or her existence .
Nice doe btw.
Rob
 
There is some hunting zones in Alberta that have mandatory submission of heads for Chronic Wasting disease survey.

There is also a form e-mailed out each January as well, generally just asking if your hunt was successful or not and why. Basically.
 
Ontario has a mix of mandatory and voluntary reporting questionnaires.

I'm thinking my bear one was mandatory (weather you get a bear or not) and turkey is mandatory (at least if you get one).

I did a voluntary moose one this year (mandatory in certain "calf controlled" areas) and have my voluntary deer (will do that when the bow season closes New Years Eve). There is also some mandatory deer surveys if you participate in some of the "controlled hunts".

In the southern part of the province wolf/coyote is covered completely under a small game licence and they are not reported (but they do ask how many you saw on the moose survey). In Northern Ontario you have to buy a special tag for wolf/coyote and if you hold a tag there is mandatory reporting.

Elk is mandatory if you "pull a tag", but at this time it's a really really small hunt - only a couple of areas and the odds of winning Lotto Max is about 1000X better than pulling an Elk tag.

Typical Ontario Government mess - convoluted, difficult to understand and follow, and "nobody" that works for the government, in any capacity or department, can give you any explanation or guidance, and if you call two days in a row, you get two different answers :)
 
In some areas in Manitoba they want samples from game animals harvested. Mostly in areas with TB concerns.
 
Nova Scotia has online registration for deer. Not sure about moose as I have never been drawn. You can register deer in person as well. There is very little information collected - ###, zone, date, how long you hunted to get it. This year some people have to turn in jawbones too.
Then an end of season report of other numbers for small game etc... - days hunted, animals killed etc.... It's mandatory, but I know many people don't do it, so there are no consequences. We will soon go to online licensing, at which point it will be easier to enforce (you can't get your next ones until you report on the past year?)
 
we are reporting here also depending the game and if by draw or not, but in quebec the datas collected are not really used. ask MNR about what they do with the calibers info and why they ask it if they do not use it ....
 
Ed Smurf said:
Just curious if other provinces have a registration system such as Quebec has for big game (deer/moose/caribou/bear/wild turkey). Here it is obligatory. Got my doe 175lb (on the hoof) opening day Quebec antlerless muzzeloading season.. This is the form you are given when you register. Your license is taken from you, and of course you pay a $6.50 fee . This provides excellent statistics I presume...not counting poachers.Lots of info there.
Check these up to date stats
Click to expand...

Hi Ed - I used to hunt in Ayer's Cliff, right on the lake. Beautiful area - the land felt "old".
 
looch said:
Hi Ed - I used to hunt in Ayer's Cliff, right on the lake. Beautiful area - the land felt "old".
Click to expand...
Well it was near Barnston, those folks have no idea how lucky they are to have such a huge deer population. Nice area, lots of bilingual folks...just overall good.
 
I hunt on my own place just outside Ayer's Cliff. I figure the deer registration is just a money grab plus a way to register firearms. I am supposed to haul a deer out of the bush and drive to either Coaticook or Fitch Bay and then come back home to get it skinned and deboned in the same night. The land we have over by Barnston is loaded with deer. We even had bucks in places nobody has ever seen a buck before.
Back home in Alberta we had to register bull elk and sheep and grizzly bears plus any deer we shot on the army base. Plus cougars. Usually the butcher shops could register your elk for you but the sheep and bears and cougars had to be taken to the Fish cops office to be registered.
 
In BC some animals have to have a compulsory inspection. i got a mountain goat this year that had to be inspected. After the inspection they give you a yellow form with all the information on it. Basically the goat doesn't belong to you until you have it inspected, you have 30 days to do it after the kill. It is pretty crappy having to show them on a map where you got it. Their insight on the animals age is kind of interesting though.
 
doc25 said:
Saskatchewan has an online survey now. No reporting. Thank god. The last moose I got was black and white and there was a tag in it's ear. Lol.
Click to expand...

Two decades ago Saskatchewan's fish cops only wanted your money. If you were drawn for Antelope you might get a mail-in survey asking what you shot and where.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom