Ask A CO: On black bear hides

Q: Is it authorized to promote a tanned black bear disguise if there may be proof that it was bought from an public sale within the US?

Ben Gignac, Chatham

A: Black bear hides have to satisfy three standards:

1. it was lawfully purchased or offered at an public sale within the US;

2. it’s tanned (or in any other case handled, plucked or manufactured right into a business product); and

3. the sale of the tanned pores and skin can be authorized within the jurisdiction from which the bear originated.

On this state of affairs, the second criterion has been met; it’s then as much as the vendor to show that the opposite two standards have additionally been met.

Usually, it’s authorized to promote the tanned skins of black bear if the disguise was beforehand lawfully purchased or offered. Hides of black bear which have been hunted after which offered earlier than being tanned could also be offered repeatedly. Nevertheless, a hunter who kills a black bear and has the disguise tanned can not then promote the tanned pores and skin because it has not beforehand been lawfully purchased or offered.

ANSWERS BY: David Critchlow, Provincial Enforcement Specialist, MNR

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