ontario regulation 351/01

made under the

fish and wildlife
conservation act, 1997

Made: August 29, 2001
Filed: August 31, 2001
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: September 15, 2001

Amending O. Reg. 667/98

(Trapping)

Note: Since the end of 2000, Ontario Regulation 667/98 has been amended by Ontario Regulation 34/01.  Previous amendments are listed in the Table of Regulations published in The Ontario Gazette dated January 20, 2001.

1. Subsections 19 (1) and (2) of Ontario Regulation 667/98 are revoked and the following substituted:

(1) A person shall not set a leg-hold trap, except a foot snare, for a furbearing mammal.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who sets a leg-hold trap,

(a) for a bobcat, coyote, lynx or wolf using a leg-hold trap other than a trap that has two planar steel jaws less than 9 mm in thickness which come into contact with one another over their full length when the trap is sprung;

(b) for a species of fox using a leg-hold trap,

(i) smaller than a trap commonly known as a number 3, or

(ii) other than a trap that has two planar steel jaws less than 9 mm in thickness which come into contact with one another over their full length when the trap is sprung; or

(c) for beaver, muskrat, otter or mink if the trap is set under ice or attached to,

(i) a sliding lock on a drowning wire or a device that will immediately submerge the captured animal in water and prevent it from resurfacing, or

(ii) a heavy object that will dislodge immediately upon the springing of the trap and will submerge the captured animal in water and prevent it from resurfacing.