Louisiana fur trapping license

While trapper education is not mandatory in Louisiana, LDWF has partnered with the Louisiana Trappers and Alligator Hunters Association to offer free trapper education workshops to demonstrate trapping basics such as trap types and history, how to set traps, and how to handle them safely.

Please see the Louisiana Fur Advisory Council for more information. Before taking one of these hands-on workshops, we encourage you to take the Louisiana Level 1 Trapping Course , a free online course available on the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies' Conservation Learning Campus.

This course is designed to allow each student to work at their convenience and their own pace. Hunting menu. Estimated Deer Breeding Periods.

Seasons and Regulations Research and Management. Fur Advisory Council. This license includes retailers. On or before the 10th of every month, you must report to LDWF how much soft shell crab you produce.

See Trip Tickets or call Seafood, Bait, Reptile, and Amphibian Transporters To operate any commercial transport vehicle and load, unload, or transport seafood, bait, reptiles, or amphibians, you must have one of the following LDWF-issued licenses.

License Types and Fees. A dealer may purchase any number of transport licenses; transport licenses are freely transferable between vehicles, but the licensee remains responsible for all activities conducted under that license. Import live viable oysters, regardless of life stage and ploidy, and intend to place those oysters or their progeny, regardless if they are contained or released, in Louisiana waters Oyster Importation Permit No fee.

Only oysters from the northern Gulf of Mexico will be considered for permitting. Applications are considered on a case-by-case basis. A copy of the permit, importation protocol, and Oyster Health Certificate must remain with the oysters during transport events into Louisiana. The permittee must notify LDWF at least 48 hours in advance of each importation event..

Nongame quadrupeds are alligators, beavers, bobcats, coyotes, gray foxes, minks, muskrats, nutrias, opossums, otters, raccoons, red foxes, skunks, and other wild quadrupeds valuable for their furs or skins License Types and Fees. Are a dealer receiving reef fish, mackerel, or cobia harvested from federal waters.

Are a dealer receiving, buying, trading, or bartering Atlantic swordfish. Buy, acquire, or handle for resale or sell any native reptiles or amphibians, including those reared in captivity. Buy unprocessed alligator parts other than hides , manufacture nonedible alligator parts into a finished product, or purchase unprocessed alligator meat or process alligator meat for wholesale or retail sale.

Buy finished products made from alligator parts other than hides for retail sale.