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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)