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This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Trappers

• • Set traps with bait and position traps along trails
  • Operate snowmobiles or travel on foot, snowshoes or skis to patrol trapline
  • Remove catch and reset traps and snares
  • Kill and skin catch for pelts, and treat and pack pelts for marketing
  • Trap live animals for sale to buyers or for relocation purposes
  • Maintain and repair trapping equipment
  • Maintain trails and access to trapping lines
  • Trap designated animals for bounty or other control programs
  • May monitor animal population in the trapping regions to ensure future sustainability.

• Hunters

• • Operate boats or snowmobiles or travel on foot to reach hunting areas
  • Pursue animals by observing and recognizing tracks, trails, animal droppings or broken foliage
  • Train dogs for hunting
  • Kill wild animals using firearms or other weapons
  • Skin dead animals for pelts using knives
  • Treat, pack and transport pelts to processing plants or to public auctions
  • Maintain hunting equipment
  • May monitor animal population in the hunting regions to ensure future sustainability.

  Trappers and hunters may specialize in trapping or hunting a particular kind of animal.

• Completion of trapping or hunting courses may be required in some provinces.
• A provincial trapping or hunting licence is required.

• In some jurisdictions, trappers may be allocated trapping areas based on their experience.

• Animal control trappers or nuisance control trappers (in 7444 Pest controllers and fumigators)
• Hunting guides (in 6532 Outdoor sport and recreational guides)