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OVER 100 CHARGES ISSUED BY MNRF IN NINE DAY SPAN

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The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry spent nine days focusing on hunter safety and moose sustainability issues.

From October 20th to the 28th, MNRF conservation officers checked 3,973 hunters in the Bancroft, Perry Sound and Pembroke. They ended up issuing 107 charges and 232 warnings during that nine-day stretch. In a press release, the MNRF say officers were doing checks to make sure hunters were obeying the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, with the focus being on hunter safety and moose sustainability issues.

In total, 17 different charges and warnings were issued:

  • shooting from, along or across a road
  • having a loaded firearm in a vehicle
  • night-hunting related offences
  • not wearing proper hunter orange
  • trespassing for the purpose of hunting
  • failing to wear a proper helmet on an ATV
  • not having a life-jacket or safety equipment on a boat
  • hunting moose, white-tailed deer or migratory birds without a licence
  • failing to immediately seal a moose
  • failing to immediately seal a deer while party hunting
  • harvesting a moose without the appropriate licence
  • hunting moose and white-tailed deer in the closed season
  • using lead shot to hunt migratory birds
  • failing to leave a fully feathered wing on a migratory bird for identification purposes
  • providing a false statement to a conservation officer
  • having open liquor in a vehicle
  • driving an off-road vehicle without insurance

On top of the charges and warnings, the MNRF seized 33 moose that were harvested illegally. There are also 17 on-going investigations related to hunter safety, moose sustainability and chronic wasting disease.

If you want to report a natural resources violation, you’re being asked to contact the ministry TIPS line at 1-877-847-7667, call your local ministry, or call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.

Written by: Mathew Reisler

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