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 fulfill three standards:
1. it was lawfully purchased or bought 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 situation, 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.
Typically, it’s authorized to promote the tanned skins of black bear if the disguise was beforehand lawfully purchased or bought. Hides of black bear which were hunted after which bought earlier than being tanned could also be bought time and again. Nonetheless, a hunter who kills a black bear and has the disguise tanned can’t then promote the tanned pores and skin because it has not beforehand been lawfully purchased or bought.
ANSWERS BY: David Critchlow, Provincial Enforcement Specialist, MNR
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