INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) — Although river otter trapping season in Indiana typically ends March 15, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) prematurely ended the 2023-2024 trapping season due to ...

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BOISE, Idaho — Idaho wildlife officials on Thursday approved expanding trapping for river otters despite widespread opposition. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission voted 6-1 to approve the plan that ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The river otter season harvest limit of 20 was reached today, the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department (GFP) said. If a river otter is caught in an existing trap in ...

Indiana’s Natural Resources Commission has opened a public comment period for proposed changes to the state’s river otter trapping rules before its members vote on their final adoption. If adopted, ...

Public comment is now open to the Indiana Natural Resources Commission, or NRC, for proposed changes to the state’s river otter trapping rules. If adopted, the changes would take effect this November ...

SEATTLE - State and federal wildlife agents are trying to trap the otter that attacked a boy and his grandmother as they were swimming in the Pilchuck River about 30 miles northeast of Seattle.

Dear Fish and Game Department, When I was walking on a trail at Sweet Pond with my grandmother and my sibling I saw an otter just barely peeking its head over a rock. It was an incredible experience ...

Imagine you are walking near a river and you see a river otter playing in the water, twisting and turning. It is a few feet long, maybe two-three feet. Sleek and dark, tumbling over others of its kind ...

It took biologists decades to repopulate the state with enough river otters to support this winter’s inaugural trapping season. But trappers in 23 counties triggered the close of the season in a lot ...