First Nations

Responsibilities

With these rights come responsibilities such as conservation and safety requirements. All First Nations trappers have a responsibility to ensure that their actions in taking furbearers do not reduce the sustainability of furbearer populations.

The rights of status Indian people are subject to conservation measures and other restrictions that do not unduly infringe on food harvesting. First Nation trappers may not:

• trap protected furbearers for which trapping is prohibited such as wolverine in the open trapping areas of Manitoba
• waste or abandon furbearers
• sell, trade or give away the meat, fur or any other part of furbearers taken under status Indian trapping rights, except that food may be given to another First Nations person
• sell the pelt of a furbearer unless it was caught under the authority of a Trapping Licence and all trapping regulations were followed