Attention hunters!

Hunting for beaver and otter is open from September 1, 2024, and will continue until March 31, 2025. Hunting for beaver and otter is permitted by firearm from ambush, stalking, approaching by small vessels, at burrows, as well as without firearms at burrows, using traps or snares (excluding loops).

        Rifled hunting firearms with a muzzle energy of the projectile exceeding 1500 joules, smooth-bore firearms using cartridges loaded with a bullet or buckshot, hunting bows and crossbows are permitted as hunting tools. When hunting by approaching, small vessels without an engine or with a non-operating engine, hunting dogs (excluding hounds and sighthounds), traps and snares (excluding loops) are permitted.

         Hunting for beaver and otter is permitted both during daylight and nighttime. However, it should be noted that when hunting without firearms using traps or snares, their setting (removal), inspection, setting, and extraction of harvested animals are allowed only during daylight hours. Hunting beaver and otter by firearm or without firearms at burrows, as well as hunting by firearm by approaching with small vessels, are permitted only during daylight hours.

         We draw the special attention of hunters to the fact that hunting beaver and otter by firearm during nighttime is permitted by ambush, stalking, and only with single-use hunting permits (valid for no more than 24 hours), as well as with the mandatory appointment and presence of a hunting supervisor.

         During the course of hunting beaver and otter without firearms, it is permitted to harvest American mink and muskrat that accidentally fall into traps or other snares set for beaver and otter. In this case, the hunter must indicate the species of animal (American mink or muskrat) and the date of harvest for each accidentally harvested animal on the reverse side of the hunting permit before extracting it from the trap or snare.

         If a hunter discovers another regulated species of game animal or a wild animal belonging to a species listed in the Red Book of the Republic of Belarus in a trap (snare) set by them for beaver or otter, the hunter, without removing the animal from the trap or other snare, must inform an official of the hunting grounds user.

         Illegal hunting of beaver or otter entails administrative or criminal liability.

For additional information and facts about poaching, please contact the Verkhnedvinsk Inter-district Inspectorate for the Protection of Fauna and Flora at the following address: Verkhnedvinsk, Sovetskaya St., 193/2, or by calling the 6-17-23 "hotline".