Big Game Hunting
Black Bear Hunting
Licences
You require a black bear
hunting licence to hunt this species in Manitoba. Licences
can be purchased at Manitoba
Conservation offices throughout the province, or at participating
vendors.
Bear Hunting
- It is illegal to kill a cub (young of the year) or a female
bear with cubs.
- Hunting black bears within 100 metres of any man-made clearing surrounding any garbage dump is prohibited. However, in a provincial park, black bears may not be hunted within 300 metres of a garbage dump.
- Baits must be clearly identified with the name and address of the hunter, guide or outfitter.
- Baits may not be placed within:
- 200 metres of a road or dwelling,
- 500 metres of a cottage subdivision or a Crown land picnic site or campground, or
- 100 metres of Riding Mountain National Park.
- Baits on Crown land may not exceed 100 kilograms of meat and/or fish.
- Baits shall not contain the head, hooves, hide, mammary glands or internal organs of livestock.
- In GHAs 23 and 23A:
- baits may not be placed between June 8 and August 10
and between October 5 and April 5, 2009.
- baiting equipment on Crown land must be removed from the bait site within 5 days after the closure of both spring and fall seasons.
NOTE: It is illegal to possess bear gall bladders in Manitoba.
Non-Resident
- Non-resident alien black bear hunters must book their hunt
through a registered lodge or outfitter authorized to outfit
non-resident alien black bear hunters.
- Non-resident alien black bear hunters must be accompanied
by a licensed Manitoba guide. No more than three hunters may
use the services of a guide at the same time.
- Non-resident alien bear hunters must only use the services of the outfitter specified on their hunting licence.
- If a female bear is harvested, non-resident alien black
bear hunters must provide to their lodge or outfitter, a premolar
tooth taken, a complete reproductive tract and all required
information pertaining to these samples.
Each hunter should receive an information package from the
registered lodge or outfitter.
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) export
permits are required before transporting a black bear
out of Canada. A CITES export
permit is not required if the hunter is personally
transporting his/her fresh, frozen or salted black bear hide, the
black bear hide with paws and claws attached, the skull or the
meat of a black bear into the United States.
Black bear paws and claws that are detached from the hide must be accompanied by a CITES permit.
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