Transporting meat.

[Smitticus]

Hey Gents,

I have a (I’m sure to be silly) question...If taking deer meat between provinces, are their any requirements, or documents needed? Would be flying from Saskatchewan to Toronto.

 

[Bigbubba]

For personal consumption, wrapped and labelled as such (and frozen) - none that I am aware of to come to Ontario
I know I flew into Toronto with Antelope and Mule deer (from WY) and no one cared. (I declared it)

You may be required to declare it leaving Sask - I don't know their regs

If you have dry ice you will need paperwork for that for the airline

 

[phinton81]

I’ve crossed back into Canada from the US with frozen deer quarters in a coffin cooler and nobody cared at the border as soon as I told them I was an archery hunter and didn’t have any firearms.

Patrick

 

[45C]

No, and dry ice is no better than Ice packs.
Frozen or fresh meet, Ice packs in a styrofoam cooler will be good for a 12 hr flight.

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

The last time I hunted the flatlands, there was a paper form required to export wildlife components. It didn't mean much to me; just another piece of paper. But the backstory was to monitor and record game exports.

 

[Bigbubba]

No, and dry ice is no better than Ice packs.
Frozen or fresh meet, Ice packs in a styrofoam cooler will be good for a 12 hr flight.

about 5 lbs of dry ice will keep a cooler full of meat frozen solid (I mean as hard as bricks) while driving for 3 days from WY to ON.
Ask me how I know...and your meat will be dry, not soaking wet from ice water laying in the cooler.
It will also be better for a flight. Weighs less too.

Try that with regular ice.

 

[Norton]

I could be mistaken, but I think I read somewhere last year that Ontario wasn't going to allow out of province deer into Ontario to combat the spread of CWD?

 

[Suther]

I could be mistaken, but I think I read somewhere last year that Ontario wasn't going to allow out of province deer into Ontario to combat the spread of CWD?

Generally speaking boned out meat is not subject to those sorts of restrictions. If the OP is trying to fly a head too then he might have more hoops to jump through, same with any bone in cuts.

I like to use bottles filled with water and frozen for my ice. Pop/Gatorade bottles are ok, but more rectangular bottles like the 2l cranberry juice bottles are even better cause they lie flat - this way you don't end up with a big puddle in the bottom of your cooler and you've got extra potable water if needed (not important for the OP's purpose but it is nice to have extra water while out hunting just in case)

 

[salarguy]

I’ve crossed back into Canada from the US with frozen deer quarters in a coffin cooler and nobody cared at the border as soon as I told them I was an archery hunter and didn’t have any firearms.

Patrick

Don't try it from Canada to the US! My cousin had to leave a bunch of meat, most canned or bottled, and some jerky, with people going back to Canada at the Maine border. It was all marked except for the seal. If they had done DNA on the seal meat he would have been locked up!