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Mike is working to get our regulations improved for the trappers. Please help him out. If your state is not already listed, please answer if you can.

Half under water for 280s or bigger
7 days check

I see that most states have more restrictive 330 rules than does Oregon. Our furbearer coordinator with ODFW back about 11-12 years ago re-wrote the rules to what they are now. 330's used to be able to be set in any "water set" but didn't need to be touching water. A trapper himself, he felt that clamping down a little bit and removing some of the gray areas of our rules would be beneficial to us.

Here is what most of my 330 sets look like:

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Iowa
Wisconsin
Ohio
Alaska
Minnesota
New York
Virginia
North Carolina
Connecticut
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
Michigan
Oregon
Utah
Maine

Lots of states left.

Ours could be more clear, but water sets need a trap with minimum one-third of trap submerged

From Virginia DWR,
"Trappers must visit all traps once each day and remove all animals caught therein, except for completely submerged body-gripping traps which must be visited at least once every 72 hours."
"The use of body gripping traps with a jaw spread in excess of 7½ inches is prohibited except when such traps are at least half submerged by water."

This

As of now in NH the law says in water for large body grippers, BUT Fish and Game is in the process of making them half wayin the water. Also our checks are once in a calander day.

Texas

It is unlawful to:
Shoot at, take or attempt to take any fur-bearing animal from a boat on public waters in Texas.
Take fur-bearing animals by means of falconry without a valid falconry permit issued by the department.
Take fur-bearing animals with a foothold or body grip trap except during the season for commercial harvest.
Take fur-bearing animals with a foothold or body grip trap within 400 yards of any school.
Use smoke, explosives or chemical irritants of any kind to harry or flush fur-bearing animals.
Take fur-bearing animals with body grip traps with a diagonal opening greater than 10 inches set on land or in less than 6-inch deep water.
Take fur-bearing animals with snare, foothold, body grip traps, and live or box trap unless such devices are examined at least once every 36 hours and animals are removed.


Fur-bearing animals include:
Badger
Beaver
Fox
Mink
Muskrat
Nutria
Opossum
Raccoon
Otter
Skunk
Ring-tailed cat

Sounds like a lot of rules! Compared to there, Alaska has very little regulations. We still have our fair share, but not as many as that!

Here is some SD data

Let’s try this again…

For those sizes less than eight inches it would fall under the 48 hr check I have here on the east side of the mighty Mo.

Illinois. “You cannot legally in water use a body gripping trap that has a jaw spread larger then 10 inches on a side if square and 12 inches if round”

Missouri
Killer or Conibear®-type traps:
◾ With a jaw spread greater than 5 inches may be set under
water, but not in any dry-land set.
◾ With a jaw spread not greater than 8 inches may be set 6
feet or more above ground-level in buildings.
◾ Having no food, scent, or visual lure placed within 1 foot of
the trap may be partially exposed above water as long as
the trap’s hinges are fully submerged.

WV=illegal to set body grip with spread pf more than 5 inches on land. Larger may be used in water sets,but doesn't specify whether completely submerged or not.

NY?

I just crossed the states of guys who replied. I didn't realize you don't know what the regulations are there.