The changes establish a statewide trapping quota of 750 river otters with an individual bag limit of two. The season extends from mid-November to mid-March.

Public comment is now open to the Indiana Natural Resources Commission, or NRC, for proposed changes to the state’s river otter trapping rules.

DES MOINES (AP) -- River otters are now legal game in Iowa for the first time since they disappeared from the state during the 1870s. The limited trapping season is the result of a successful and ...

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If the DNR moves forward with the changes, those would be implemented for the 2024-2025 otter trapping season, which runs from Nov. 15 to March 15 or until the quota of 750 harvested otters is met.

The six lawmakers are scheduled to meet on Tuesday, June 10 in Pierre. Under the new beaver regulation, trapping would no longer be allowed at all in the Black Hills Forest Fire Protection District.

Indiana’s Natural Resources Commission has opened the final public comment periods for proposed changes to Indiana’s deer hunting and river otter trapping rules before members vote on final ...

Wyoming House Bill 0045, which removes otters from protected status, took effect after Gov. Mark Gordon signed the bill into law on Feb. 24. For the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, the bill will ...

SEYMOUR, Ind. | The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is considering allowing a trapping season for river otters less than two decades after the animal was reintroduced.

Indiana’s Natural Resources Commission on Tuesday approved preliminary rules for a new, lawmaker-mandated bobcat trapping season, and finalized statewide river otter trapping regulations.