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SUMMARY OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS NOTICE: The material below is only a summary of Federal rules. Each hunter should also consult the actual Federal regulations, which may be found in Title 50, code of Federal Regulations, Part 20.
RESTRICTIONS. No person shall harvest migratory game birds:
A. While possessing shot( either in shot shells or as loose shot for muzzleloading) other than steel shot or such shot approved as nontoxic while taking Anatidae( ducks, geese, and brant), coots and any species that make up aggregate bag limits during concurrent seasons.
B. With a trap, snare, net, rifle, pistol, swivel gun, shotgun larger than 10-gauge, punt gun, battery gun, machine gun, fishhook, poison, drug, explosive, or stupefying substance.
C. With a shotgun capable of holding more than three shells, unless it is plugged with a one-piece filler that cannot be removed without disassembling the gun.
D. From a sink box( a low floating device, having a depression affording the hunter a means of concealment beneath the surface of the water).
E. From or with the aid or use of a car or other motor-driven land conveyance, or any aircraft, except that paraplegics and single or double amputees of the legs may take from any stationary motor vehicle or stationary motor-driven land conveyance.“ Paraplegic” means an
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individual afflicted with paralysis of the lower half of the body with involvement of both legs, usually due to disease of or injury to the spinal cord.
F. By the use or aid of live decoys. All live, tame or captive ducks and geese shall be removed for a period of 10 consecutive days prior to hunting, and confined within an enclosure which substantially reduces the audibility of their calls and totally conceals such tame birds from the sight of migratory waterfowl.
G. Using records or tapes of migratory bird calls or sounds, or electrically amplified imitations of bird calls.
H. By means or aid of any motor driven land, water, or air conveyance, or any sailboat used for the purpose of or resulting in the concentrating, driving, rallying, or stirring up of any migratory bird.
I. By the aid of baiting or on or over any baited area, where a person knows or reasonably should know that the area is or has been baited. However, nothing in this paragraph prohibits the taking of migratory game birds on or over the following lands or areas that are not otherwise baited areas: a) standing crops or flooded standing crops; standing, flooded, or manipulated natural vegetation; flooded harvested croplands; or lands or areas where seeds or grains have been scattered solely as a result of a normal agricultural planting, harvesting, post-harvest manipulation or normal
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soil stabilization practice; b) from a blind or other place of concealment camouflaged with natural vegetation; c) from a blind or other place of concealment camouflaged with vegetation from agricultural crops, as long as such camouflaging does not result in the exposing, depositing, distributing or scattering of grain or other feed.
J. A person must also retain the bird in their actual custody, at the place where harvested or between that place and either( a) their automobile or principle means of land transportation; or( b) their personal abode or temporary or transient place of lodging.
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Aquatic Invasive Species
HELP US KEEP IT MAINE: PROTECT OUR WATERS FROM AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES
1 CLEAN
• Clean off plants, animals, and mud from gear and equipment including decoys, waders, footwear, boat, paddles, ropes, anchors, and field gear before leaving water access.
• Scrub off any visible material on footwear with a stiff brush.
• Dispose of debris in a trash reciprocal or a responsible location away from the water.
2 DRAIN
• Drain water from watercraft, motor, bilge, bladder tanks, and live well away from the water before leaving water access.
3 DRY
• Dry completely before reuse.
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