Otter and Muskrat

Allowed Methods

• Dogs may not be used
• Traps must have smooth or rubber jaws only
• Foot-hold trap
• Conibear or other killing-type trap with a jaw spread greater than 5 inches may be set underwater, but not in any dry-land set.
• Foot-enclosing trap
• Cage-type trap
• Colony traps with openings no greater than 6 inches in height and 6 inches wide
• Cable restraint devices
• Snares set underwater, have a loop 15 inches or less in diameter when set, have a stop device that prevents snare from closing to less than 2 1/2 inches in diameter, mad with cable that is between 5/64 inch and 1/8 inch in diameter, and have a mechanical lock and anchor swivel.

Within communities having 10,000 or more inhabitants, only cage-type or foot-enclosing traps, may be set within 150 feet of any residence or occupied building.

Prohibited Methods

• Snares on land
• Pitfalls
• Deadfalls
• Nets
• Traps may not be set in paths made or used by people or domestic animals
• Killing-type traps may not be set along public roadways.