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| Release Date: |
August 4, 2009 |
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| Offence Date: |
November, 2008 |
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| Item: |
Hunter fails to tag deer |
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| Description: |
During the Whitetail Deer muzzleloader
season Carberry District Natural
Resource Officers came upon the hide,
head and legs of a doe whitetail deer.
The remains had been recently discarded
out of the back of a vehicle. There had
been a fresh snowfall that morning and
the hide was still warm. It seemed odd
to the Officers that someone would have
skinned out a carcass and disposed of
the remains that quickly. The vehicle
tracks were followed back to a nearby
residence where an ATV trailer with
fresh blood was located beside a shed.
After attending at the residence and
speaking to the homeowner it was
determined that her sons were out
hunting elsewhere, they were contacted
by phone and asked to return to the
residence.
Upon their arrival they were asked if
they had killed any deer that morning to
which one of the brothers claimed he had
shot a doe and that it was hanging in
the shed, when the officers checked his
license it was a shotgun/muzzleloader
license for a different game hunting
area and dates. The man claimed he had
not noticed he had the wrong license and
blamed the licence vendor for the error.
The tag was not attached to the license.
The man then agreed to show the deer to
the officers, he briskly walked to the
shed making it difficult for the
Officers to keep up. Once inside he was
observed removing a game tag from his
pocket and letting it fall to the floor
below the deer carcass. He claimed the
tag had just fell off the deer carcass.
An inspection of the tag revealed it had
not been notched with the date of
killing and that it was the
shotgun/muzzleloader tag not valid for
the game hunting area. Shortly after the
man admitted he had purposely failed to
tag the deer and had kept on hunting
after taking the deer.
He was subsequently issued an offence
notice for failing to tag a big game
animal and a warning was issued for
hunting with the wrong license.
On December 12th he plead guilty and was
assessed a $200.00 fine, the seized deer
was forfeited to the crown.
The deer carcass was donated to the
Agassiz Youth Center in Portage la
Prairie for butchering and consumption.
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