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Bear Hunting License
A valid hunting license and a bear permit is required to hunt for bear prior to the firearms season on deer. The cost with this license is:
- Residents $27.00*
- Non-Residents $74.00* (this license covers the entire bear searching period)
- Non-Resident Later Season Allow $40*
In case a non-resident desires to hunt bear throughout the regular firearms period on deer just, a late-season bear searching license and a legitimate searching permit is necessary.
A trapping license and bear trapping permit is required to trap for bear. See Trapping statutory Laws for lots more information
Landowner Privileges
Qualified landowners may hunt bear by themselves land without a large game permit, but they are necessary to have a valid bear searching license. See special landowner privileges.
Bait can be put 1 month ahead of the bear hunting with bait period with no later than 31 october. Bait areas should be cleaned up by 10 november. Bait enables you to help dog hunters and trappers, however it is unlawful to shoot a bear over bait following the close for the bait season.
Searching by using bait is described as searching from an observation stand, blind, or any other location that overlooks any bait or meals, except standing plants and meals which were left because of normal agricultural operations or normal incident.
Bear bait means any animal, plant, or derivative thereof, used to attract the league (app) bear. This will not include packaging or container materials that fall inside the concept of litter under Title 17, В§2263.
Someone might not spot any medicinal, poisonous, or stupefying substance to entice any animal, including bear.
Bait may possibly not be put to entice, hunt or trap bear that is black:
- The bait is positioned at the least 50 yards from any travel method in which is obtainable by a regular 2-wheel or 4-wheel drive automobile
- The observation stand, blind, or bait area is clearly labeled having a 2 inches by 4 inches label with all the true title and target associated with the baiter
- The bait is positioned significantly more than 500 yards from any waste that is solid web web site or campground
- The bait is positioned significantly more than 500 yards from an occupied dwelling, unless written authorization is awarded by the master or tenant
- Anyone hunting from someone else’s stand or blind has got the owner’s authorization.
- Anyone putting bait on someone else’s land gets the landowner’s authorization (oral or perhaps on paper).
- If putting bait for a wildlife administration area, you will need to secure a license from MDIFW. The wildlife biologist in your administrative region to apply for a bear baiting permit, contact.
- If putting bait on Public Reserved Land, you will need to secure a license through the Bureau of Parks and Lands (for information, call 207-287-3821).
Baiting of animals is forbidden in State Parks and Historic web Sites.
Legal Hunting Gear
Bear could be taken by usage of rifle, handguns, muzzleloader, shotguns (with slugs just and never bigger than 10 measure), bow and arrow (with a draw that is minimum of 35 lbs.) or crossbow (with the absolute minimum draw fat of 100 lbs.). Making use of a firearms with .17 or .22 caliber rimfire cartridges, or a shotgun with shotloads to hunt bear is forbidden.
Bear Hunting Prohibitions
An individual cannot, within 50 yards of the baitsite and without written permission fromthe individual who keeps the bait web site:
- search, trap, molest, or harass bear
- to produce dog or dogs to hunt bear
- train dogs on bearIt is illegal to hunt bear, or launch dogs for the function, within 500 yards of a waste disposal site that is solid
It really is unlawful to hunt bear, or launch dogs for the function, within 500 yards of the solid waste disposal website
Searching with Dogs
It really is unlawful to:
- use dogs to hunt bear throughout the firearm that is open on deer
- usage significantly more than 6 dogs at any one time and energy to search for bear
- Kill or wound a bear that is held or treed at bay by another people dog or dogs until you have actually authorization through the individual performing the search
Someone might not hunt bear after having killed one by searching that can not trap bear after having killed one by trapping, during the available period of the calendar 12 months. An individual may destroy and register two bears, one by searching and one by trapping.
Bear Hunting by having a Maine Guide
Nonresidents must use, and look within the existence of, a resident Maine guide so that you can hunt bear with dogs. In the event that nonresident is a licensed Maine guide, they may hunt bear with dogs by themselves, and could guide residents, but cannot guide nonresidents.
The sum total quantity of consumers with a licensed guide may maybe perhaps perhaps not go beyond five.
Laws Regarding Registration
Just before enrollment, bears are break up for simplicity of transportation, but all righ parts ( aside from the viscera and rib cage) must certanly be presented as well as in such a fashion that the intercourse of this animal could be determined.
Present bear will need to have each part plainly labeled using the title and target of the person who registered your pet while the in which it was registered year.
Note: Hunters have to eliminate a tooth that is premolar the bear they harvest and offer the enamel at enrollment (directions offered at the enrollment place). Hunters would be notified for the chronilogical age of the bear they harvested regarding the Bear Hunting web page associated with the MDIFW web site before the beginning of the bear that is next period (belated August).
For informative data on buying, attempting to sell or bartering pets, see Prohibition Regarding Selling of crazy pets.
For informative data on tracking wounded bear, deer or moose with dogs, see Leashed puppy monitoring License.
2020 Bear Hunting Seasons and Bag Limits
| Season | Dates | day-to-day Bag & Possession Limit |
|---|---|---|
| General Hunting | August 31 – November 28, 2020 | 2 could be taken yearly – 1 by searching, 1 by trapping |
| Hunting with Dogs | September 14 – October 30, 2020 | |
| Hunting with Bait Bait may be put August 1, 2020 | August 31 – September 26, 2020 | |
| Trapping | September 1 – October 31, 2020 | |
| Youth Bear Day | August 29, 2020 |
All times are inclusive except that searching is forbidden on Sunday.
See Laws related to Hunting gear for informative data on the application of crossbows. Additional information on Bear Trapping.