- (a) Traps shall be checked at least once in a calendar day pursuant to RSA 210:13 and the landowner or their agent may check box traps only for the wildlife control operator.
- (b) Snares shall only be used by wildlife control operators after completing a training course in the use of snares.
- (c) Wildlife control operators shall have held a New Hampshire trapping or wildlife control operator license for at least 3 years since 2000 before enrolling in the snaring course.
- (d) A training course for the use of snares shall be approved by the executive director and include legal requirements, equipment review, methods and techniques for use, target selection, and humane considerations.
- (e) Snares shall be non-locking, relaxing snares equipped with a deer stop and a durable tag with the name of the person setting them stamped or engraved in a legible manner.
- (f) Any domestic pet killed in a trap or a snare shall be reported to the department within 24 hours.
- (g) Body gripping traps shall be set in accordance with Fis 303.12.
- (h) Any non-targeted wildlife, incidentally killed, that has no open season shall be reported to the department within 72 hours.
- (i) Fisher and otter taken by wildlife control operators shall be sealed within 10 days and may be sold.
- (j) During the open season for otter and fisher, the limit for otter and fisher shall be in accordance with the season limits specified in Fis 303.02(c) and Fis 303.04(c), respectively.
- (k) Bobcat shall only be captured in live traps and released unharmed.
- (l) The wildlife control operator may relocate and release wildlife only after the wildlife control operator has obtained written permission of the landowner where the wildlife is to be released.
- (m) Wildlife control operators may release wildlife on state owned or managed lands for which they hold a valid trapping permit issued pursuant to Fis 303.13.
Source. #7801, eff 6-1-03; ss by #8385, eff 6-25-05; amd by #8644, eff 6-1-06; ss by #10142, eff 6-5-12; amd by #10619, eff 6-2-14; ss by #13970, eff 6-1-24