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This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Set traps with bait and position traps along trails
• Operate boats or snowmobiles or travel on foot, snowshoes or skis to patrol trapline or to reach hunting areas
• Pursue animals by observing and recognizing tracks, trails, animal droppings or broken foliage
• Remove catch and reset traps and snares
• Kill and skin catch for pelts, and treat and pack pelts for marketing or for transport to public auctions
• Kill wild animals using firearms or other weapons
• Trap live animals for sale to buyers or for relocation purposes
• Maintain and repair trapping and hunting equipment
• Maintain trails and access to trapping lines or hunting regions
• Trap designated animals for bounty or other control programs
• May train dogs for hunting
• May monitor animal population in the trapping or hunting regions to ensure future sustainability.

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

• Animal control trapper; nuisance control trapper (in 73202 Pest controllers and fumigators)
• Hunting guide (in 64322 Outdoor sport and recreational guides)