Trapping Regulations

Fur Dealers and Processors

It is essential to furbearer management programs that fur dealers and processors continue to regularly submit reports. The dealer reports are audited for compliance to the regulations.

• A Fur Dealer's Licence authorizes the holder, from a place designated in the licence, to buy, sell and trade the castors of beavers and the pelts, skins and hides of black bears, gray (timber) wolves and fur bearing animals taken within the province.
• The Miscellaneous Licences and Permits Regulation, MR 53/2007 requires most fur dealers to record every transaction on a form provided by the department, include all information required on the form, and record each transaction immediately after it occurs, sequentially by date with no blank spaces between entries. A fur dealer must submit a completed record of transaction form to Manitoba Conservation on or before the 10th day after the period covered by the form. When no transactions have occurred in that period, a form marked "No transactions" must be submitted. A "transaction" means a purchase, sale or trade authorized by a fur dealer’s licence.
• Processors (tanners and taxidermists) must submit reports on a quarterly basis