New Ontario Regulations Affect Deer, Moose, Caribou Hunters
 

Attention all deer, moose, caribou hunters who travel through Ontario. Ontario has implemented new rules for bringing cervid body parts into the province, effective immediately.

Read carefully before travelling through or into Ontario:
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business...02_168766.html

Just to be clear: this new regulation affects all Ontario hunters and Amercian hunters who travel through Ontario. Effective immediately, we may not transport whole deer, moose, caribou carcasses into the province.

If you are planning a Quebec hunting trip, you need to do some extra planning or you will not be coming home with any meat.

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business...02_168766.html

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Yes what you are saying is true but it's not the whole story. You need to go to this website to get the whole impact. I won't elaborate here but I will in the Quebec Caribou hunt forum.


http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business...tml#possession

Obviously. That's why I posted the link. Everyone traveling into ON should read all the info. The essential part is quoted below.

The Amended Regulation

Ontario has amended an existing regulation to prohibit the possession in Ontario of high risk body parts and fluids of members of the deer family harvested in other jurisdictions to also include moose and caribou.

High risk parts include the head, spinal column, unprocessed antlers or hide, hoofs, lymph nodes, eyes, spleen, mammary glands, entrails and internal organs. These animal parts are considered high risk because in sick or infected animals they contain prions that may transmit CWD.

The regulation applies to all members of the deer family (referred to as "cervids" and comprising more that 37 species) including all species of deer, elk, moose and caribou that are harvested outside Ontario and transported back or possessed in Ontario.

All caribou, moose, deer hunters who travel into (or through) Ontario from Quebec must comply with both Quebec and Ontario regulations. The Ontario regulations became much more restrictive in 2010.

Quebec regulation: Transport the whole animal or identifiable quarters to the nearest Quebec game check station for registration.

Ontario regulation: Completely butcher the animal before crossing the Ontario border (remove head, hide, spine, hooves, etc.)

Since the animal could freeze solid by the time you reach a game check station, here’s the only way I see to be fully compliant in both provinces:

- Tag the animal immediately.
- Cut off head and hooves.
- Skin, gut and quarter the animal.
- Be sure to cut off the entire spine from all 4 quarters.
- Leave all the prohibited parts in the field.
- Do NOT debone all the meat prior to registering the animal.
- Transport to the nearest Quebec game check station.
- If travelling the James Bay Highway, you must check in at KM 381.
- Transport to the Ontario border.

Note: if you want to keep the antlers, cape, or hide be sure to follow the extra steps listed in the Ontario regulations: http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business...02_168766.html

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