30.00 non resident trapping license

Do any of you have a non resident trapping license this low or know of any state that does?

Our resident trapping is more then that.

250 just for coyotes here

We’ve had a casual suggestion from someone in authority to lower ours to that, the nearly same price as resident. I’ve never heard any other wildlife dept lowering to that or lowering at all except Tennessee. Trying to formulate a response.

Someone on here made an extensive list of states fees.

NR here is $345 plus other tags and you need a trappers ed course now, even if you are just predator hunting.

The only reason that makes sense would be ADC type of results beyond the scope of the game dept.

What would be the advantage to bring in non- resident trappers? reciprocity?

I don't mind, just curious.

We’re already one of the cheapest in the nation. Ironically i think in part it’s to encourage more beaver trapping on which we were shot down on last year for our own residents. It’s just a verbal mention right now we’re providing our feedback. I believe the intent is good to encourage more furbearer take but I’d like to see more consideration to doing away with the 24 hour check on lethal sets and extend through March for us if they want more beaver taken.

Doing away with the 24 hr check on Beaver would be a game changer...Much larger harvest possibilities.

Unless I'm getting an old price the Kentucky thing says $130.00 for non resident. Still cheap and reasonable.

Wyoming NR was 200 a few years ago.

If they want beaver gone just keep the season open all year. In Georgia there is no closed season hunting/trapping for coyotes or beaver.
And if our trapping ID’s are equivalent to the number of trappers then we don’t have many.

How’s your beaver trapping down that way? I’m assuming it’s pretty good?

New York trapping license went down from $300 to $250 a few years ago. And the fishing license did too from $70 to $50. But before that they raised it or even doubled it from the previos amount. Nonresident licenses......jk

Beaver are strong what with the prices. Lots of landowner complaints as well as counties unplugging culverts. I think there’s a big concern with the otters as we have a limit. I believe giving us a 48 check and going into March would remove more beavers than anything else but they wouldn’t go for it when we asked.

How does a 48 hr check compared to a 24 hr check give you a bigger harvest? Just curious

Well you can run twice the traps or operate at half the cost.

But you could have caught 2 beavers in the trap on those two day checks instead of 1. Doubling your harvest without running more traps

Florida's NR trapping license is $25.

Just takes a few weeks to earn that $25 back.LOL

That's the theory.what's fact is if you're running 25 traps a day you could concievably run 50,with the latter 25 set on new areas.

Yes that is possible I guess. I have several times, especially on larger water, caught one and done. What we asked for was all water animals using lethal sets. Tennessee went that way and it’s just nothing but good for trappers. I would like the flexibility to do it both ways. It’d be good , to me, to do an initial 24 check and then go 48 and pull. I catch the most first night of set heavy.

Yeah, but you can't cover as much fresh territory and skim the cream, that's the game changer.

I believe Delaware NR trapping license is about 36.00 ..some one correct me if I am wrong?......lets see that would take about 9 red fox to pay for at todays market?

I think PAs is really cheap too?

41.90

I trap in two other states besides KY - the license is way higher in both than for a resident license - but 48 hour checks on kill sets and no limits on otter or bobcats. You can hammer beaver on a 48 hour check. Being able to run 2 lines is a huge advantage. You can set one in a familiar area and know you will catch some, then set the other in a prospect area and roll the dice. Granted where I am trapping if it is wet you will catch beaver, and otter, and rats, and nutria (yep, even in KY).

As far as lowering the non-resident rate to $30, I agree they need to fix our check on water kill sets and extend the season through March before even discussing dropping the non-resident rate.

Yes that non-res price is more in line with our res price here.
Jim

In favor of extend check times but the simple facts are fur market and prices drive the harvest not attracting out of state trappers (Not opposed to out of staters). Hobby trappers will never take enough furbearers to keep populations in check and most folk don't wanna pay for removal (I know from experience). Until groups outside of trapping organizations start promoting the use of fur we will see desperate attempts by wildlife agency's to find ways of controlling population without employing trappers on a payroll.

Florida is $26.50

Just a thought....With fur prices plummeting.... license prices need to be in order.
And a longer ck law is in the trapper and DNRs favor.