TRAPPER LICENSES

Buy Hunting Licenses or Validate Deer Tags

2008-2009 Trapping Season

Recreational fishing and hunting licenses may be purchased online or by telephone using Visa or MasterCard. Call toll free 1-888-765-2602. An authorization number for immediate use will be provided and licenses will be mailed to the licensee.
A SERVICE FEE IS CHARGED.

FURBEARERS
The following animals are classified as furbearers: beaver,
bobcat, coyote, gray fox, mink, muskrat, nutria, opossum, river
otter, red fox, raccoon and skunk.

2008-2009 SEASON
The trapping season will open STATEWIDE on November 20, 2008, and will close March 31, 2009. These dates have been set permanently for future years by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission. 

2008-2009 Trapping Season

LICENSES REQUIRED

Trapper: No person shall set or run traps of any type to catch furbearers during the open trapping season without a current trapping license. No person shall sell pelts or carcasses of furbearers without a current trapping license. (This includes bobcat, raccoon and/or opossum hunters selling pelts and/or meat.) Every fur trapper must at all times have his current trapping license in possession while trapping or selling pelts or carcasses.

Fur Buyer: No person shall buy whole nongame quadrupeds for the purpose of pelting, carcasses of furbearing animals, raw furs or skins from fur trappers, alligator hunters, alligator farmers, fur buyers or fur dealers and sell within the state without a current fur buyer's license in his possession while conducting business.

Fur Dealer: No person shall buy whole nongame quadrupeds for the purpose of pelting, carcasses of furbearing animals, raw furs or skins from fur trappers, alligator hunters, alligator farmers, fur buyers or fur dealers and ship or export these furs or skins from the state without a current fur dealer's license in his possession while conducting business.