CBC News · Posted: Apr 03, 2018   
      
   B.C. strengthens grizzly bear hunting ban with new regulations   
      
   Taxidermists, tanners must report grizzly bear parts brought to them within 10   
   days or face a fine   
      
   In previous years, the spring grizzly bear hunt in B.C. would be getting   
   underway by April, but a ban was imposed last year and new provincial   
   regulations came into effect over the weekend to strengthen it.   
      
   A ban on trophy hunting was announced last August and, by December, all   
   non-First Nations grizzly bear hunting throughout the province was illegal.    
      
   As of April 1, taxidermists and tanners in B.C. have to report any grizzly   
   bears or grizzly bear parts brought to them within 10 days or face a $230 fine.   
      
       Province ends grizzly bear hunt throughout all B.C.   
      
   They can still work on grizzly bear parts that were legally collected from   
   outside the province or before the ban on grizzly bear hunting took effect   
   last year.   
      
   Chris Genovali, the executive director of the Raincoast Conservation   
   Foundation, has been trying to bring an end to the grizzly hunt for nearly two   
   decades.   
      
   He said the additional changes on hunting this month come at a "monumental   
   point in time" but there is still room for improvement.   
      
   "That fine needs to be probably 10 times the current amount in order to   
   incentivize these individuals to keep honest and follow the reporting   
   requirements, otherwise it's just the cost of doing business," he told Gregor   
   Craigie, the host of CBC's On The    
   Island.   
      
      
   Other changes for hunters   
      
   About 250 grizzlies are killed annually by hunters in B.C., according to a   
   provincial estimate reported when the ban was first introduced.   
      
   "We are hoping that the grizzly hunt ban will signal a new era in how both the   
   B.C. government and British Columbians in general will interact and relate to   
   all our carnivores in the province,"  Genovali said.   
      
   Under the new regulations, hunters must carry all their species licences   
   during a hunting trip.   
      
   They must now also collect all the edible portions of large animals they kill,   
   including cougars, mule deer, white-tailed deer, fallow deer, moose, elk,   
   mountain sheep, mountain goat, caribou, bison and black bears.   
      
      
   http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-grizzly-bear-   
   unting-regulations-take-effect-1.4603538   
      
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