Taxidermy Auctions

Section 141(4) is the section that applies to most often as it speaks to registering wildlife forming part of an estate.

Registration for sale

141(1) Subject to subsection (2), the processed skin of a grizzly bear or a cougar or the horns or antlers of a big game animal maybe registered for sale by a person who killed the animal under the authority of a recreational licence.

(2) A registration for sale may not be made under subsection (1) if the registration would result in a person’s having registered for sale in excess of a lifetime maximum of

(a) 2 sets of trophy sheep horns,

(b) 2 sets of goat horns, or

(c) 2 grizzly bear skins.

(3) A person applies to register wildlife for sale by applying to an appointed officer in the form required by the Minister and personally delivering the wildlife to the officer.

(4) Notwithstanding subsection (2), a person lawfully acting on behalf of the estate of a deceased person may register for sale any wildlife, except edible meat, forming part of that estate if that person satisfies an appointed officer with reasonable certainty that the wildlife was lawfully possessed by the deceased.

(5) An appointed officer may permanently mark the wildlife delivered under this section in a manner approved by the Minister.

The sections of Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Regulation below also speak to trafficking in wildlife, and certain exemptions (thereby not requiring registration for sale):

19 The following wildlife is exempt from the application of sections 57(1), 59(1) and 62(1) and (2) of the Act:

(a) processed upland game birds;

(b) the feathers and flesh of upland game birds raised under the authority of a game bird farm permit or a game bird shooting ground licence;

(c) wildlife animals bearing the unaltered permanent marking referred to in section 141(5) of this Regulation if

(i) a period of at least 3 years has elapsed from the datewhen the mark was affixed, or

(ii) the wildlife has been registered for sale pursuant to section 141(4) of this Regulation;

(d) the processed skins of fur-bearing animals

(i) killed by a person referred to in section 4 or 7 in accordance with section 4 or 7 respectively, or under the authority of

(A) a registered fur management licence, a resident fur management licence, an Indian fur management licence, a Metis trapper’s licence, a collection licence, a wolf/coyote licence or a damage control licence, or

(B) a licence equivalent to a licence specified in paragraph (A) issued outside Alberta,

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(ii) raised on a fur farm or under the authority of a zoo permit or a research permit;

(e) the processed skins, excluding horns and any part of a horn, of sheep and goat killed under the authority of recreational licences;

(f) the skins, excluding horns, antlers and any part of a horn or antler, of antelope, moose, elk, white-tailed deer and mule deer that are lawfully possessed;

(g) beaver and all parts of beaver that are hunted under section 7(2) or (13) of Schedule 1 or under the authority of a damage control licence;

(h) all fur-bearing animals and parts of fur-bearing animals, excluding any unprocessed part of the skin but including the unprocessed skin of the tail of beaver, that are hunted under the authority of a fur management licence;

(i) the feathers of migratory game birds, but only for the purposes and under the conditions stated in section

12.1(1) of the Migratory Birds Regulations (Canada)

(C.R.C., c. 1035).

Black bear claws and skins — ss57(1) and 62(1) and (2)

20(1) The claws of a black bear killed in accordance with the Act and this Regulation are exempt from the application of sections

57(1) and 62(1) and (2) of the Act if they have not been surgically or otherwise separated from the entire skin of the black bear.

(2) Subject to subsection (1), the skins, including portions of skins, of black bear killed in accordance with the Act and this Regulation are exempt from the application of sections 57(1) and 62(1) and (2) of the Act.