Re: michigan otter registration
[Re: swampbeast]
#6987426
09/10/20 05:59 PM
09/10/20 05:59 PM
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Posts: 2,494 Garden,Michigan
Buck (Zandra)
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Interesting.After seeing your post I went to their website,apparently they haven't put up the 2020 regs ,I got the 2019.There was a news release by MUCC about looking at different furbearer regs ,they mentioned raising the limit to 4,nothing about shortening the season.What really makes it interesting is in the past beaver and other regs were tied together,this release says they're looking at extending the beaver season to the end of April.
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
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Re: michigan otter registration
[Re: swampbeast]
#7016380
10/13/20 12:50 PM
10/13/20 12:50 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 759 U.P. Michigan
Spade
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Mi DNR, always seems to do that, give us a little then take something away. Seems a couple years ago increased the martin take by one, then cut the season by I think a week. Gave us the use of snares, but only when the snow is butt deep to a giraffe, no snares on public or commerical land, and restrictions on their use makes them almost worthless.
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Re: michigan otter registration
[Re: swampbeast]
#7016475
10/13/20 02:51 PM
10/13/20 02:51 PM
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Posts: 2,494 Garden,Michigan
Buck (Zandra)
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They've been playing that game for some time.The otter thing really had me puzzled.Back in the early 80's when a season was put on Fox there was a push to move the coon season up to coincide with Fox so all incidental coon were legal.This went on for sometime ,the dept.s position was their hands were tied because muskrat,mink,and coon were all linked together by law,that it would take the legislature to separate them so we could get a earlier coon date.Why this on for years I don't know,but finally somebody got the legislature to act and we got our early coon season.Beaver and otter we were told were in the same boat,linked by law.I never heard anybody wanted a shorten otter season to begin with,then,presto,chango,beaver season is now closing 2 weeks later and otter 2 weeks earlier.The DNRs name should be changed to the Bureau of Mystery.
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
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Re: michigan otter registration
[Re: swampbeast]
#7022934
10/21/20 07:33 AM
10/21/20 07:33 AM
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garart
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Didn't see the otter closure this year on March 31,and yes that does suck and there will be a bunch of otters caught in April! Depending on the weather and location ice out may not have happend by then.Increasing the the bag limit and shortening the season doesn't make sence to me? I was just checking this out in the guide book and seen they are allowing any otter incidentles caught between April 1 thru April 30 to be tagged and kept as part of our season bag limit.See page 11, second paragraph under reporting incidents catches.
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