Hello, friends. For several years I have applied for a permit to trap otter and fisher. I received a fisher trapping permit three years ago but did not try trapping for them. This past fall when I got ...

Public comment is now open to the Indiana Natural Resources Commission, or NRC, for proposed changes to the state’s river otter trapping rules. If adopted, the changes would take effect this November ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The river otter season harvest limit of 20 was reached today, the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department (GFP) said. If a river otter is caught in an existing trap in ...

Ohio's trapping season for various species opens on November 10, with some seasons extending through February. Coyotes are the only species that can be legally trapped year-round in the state.

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana’s first river otter trapping season since the furry species was reintroduced to the state in the 1990s after a long absence has seen trappers take two-thirds of the statewide ...

It took biologists decades to repopulate the state with enough river otters to support this winter’s inaugural trapping season. But trappers in 23 counties triggered the close of the season in a lot ...

The inaugural otter trapping season in 2016 was the culmination of one of Pennsylvania’s greatest conservation success stories. At one point, river otters were nearly extirpated in the state, and in ...

Strong coffee in hand and waist-high rubber waders in the bed of his pickup, Mike Kroger will often set out in the early morning hours of the day to meander somewhere along a 3-mile stretch of the Big ...