Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Wildlife and Fisheries Commission
In accordance with the provisions of R.S. 56:259(A) which authorizes the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission to set the open season for the taking of non-game quadrupeds and allows the Commission to extend, curtail or prohibit trapping in any area of the state each year and in accordance with emergency provisions of R.S. 49:953(B) and R.S. 49:967(D) of the Administrative Procedure Act, which allows the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission to use emergency provisions to set seasons, the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission does hereby set the 2006-2007 trapping season including the Coastwide Nutria Control Program, statewide from November 20, 2006 through March 31, 2007 including all Department Wildlife Management Areas except Acadiana Conservation Corridor, Floy Ward McElroy, Elbow Slough and Sandy Hollow where the trapping season will remain closed.
The coastwide nutria control program objective is to provide economic incentive, by payment of $5 per nutria tail to participants, to encourage the harvest of up to 400,000 nutria annually from coastal Louisiana. For the purpose of this program, coastal Louisiana is bounded on the north by Interstate 10 from the Louisiana-Texas line to Baton Rouge, Interstate 12 from Baton Rouge to Slidell, and Interstate 10 to the Louisiana-Mississippi line. Any provision of LAC 76:V.123 in conflict herewith is hereby superseded for the duration of this Declaration of Emergency.
The Wildlife and Fisheries Commission does hereby also authorize the Secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to extend or shorten the adopted season.
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