Hunting Regulations AND INFORMATION
North Carolina Goose Zones (After Sept. 30)
ZONE
COUNTIES/PARTS OF COUNTIES
Includes the counties or parts of counties shown in blue. Parts of counties include: Bertie - that portion south and west of a line formed by N.C. 45 at the Washington Co. line to U.S. 17 in Mid- way. U.S. 17 in Midway to U.S. 13 in Windsor. U.S. 13 in Windsor to the Hertford. Co. line Includes the counties or parts of counties shown in yellow. Parts of counties include: Bertie - that portion north and east of a line formed by N.C. 45 at the Washington Co. line to U.S. 17 in Midway to U.S. 13 in Windsor to the Hertford Co. line
– Resident Population Zone
– Northeast Hunt Zone
North Carolina Duck Zones
ZONE
COUNTIES/PARTS OF COUNTIES
– Inland Zone – Coastal Zone
All counties and parts of counties west of Interstate 95 All counties and parts of counties east of Interstate 95
Summary of Federal Regulations In addition to state regulations, the following federal rules apply to the taking, possession, shipping, transporting and storing of migratory game birds. No persons shall take migratory game birds: • With a trap, snare, net, rifle, pistol, swivel gun, shotgun larger than 10 gauge, punt gun, battery gun, machinegun, fish hook, poison, drug, explosive, or stupefying substance; • With a shotgun of any description capable of holding more than three shells, unless it is plugged with a one-piece filler, incapable of removal without disassembling the gun, so its total capacity does not exceed three shells. This restriction does not apply during dates states have selected under the Conservation Order for light geese (i.e. snow and Ross’s geese) or those selected for the control of resident Canada geese. • From or by means, aid, or use of a sinkbox or any other type of low-floating device, having a depression affording the hunter a means of concealment beneath the surface of the water; • From or by means, aid, or use of any motor vehicle, motor-driven land conveyance, or aircraft of any kind, except that paraplegics and persons missing one or both legs may
• By the aid of baiting, or on or over any baited area, where a person knows or rea- sonably should know that the area is or has been baited. It is legal to take migratory game birds including waterfowl, coots, and cranes, on or over the following lands or areas that are not otherwise baited areas: • Standing crops or flooded standing crops (including aquatics); • Standing, flooded, or manipulated natural vegetation; flooded harvested croplands; or lands or areas where seeds or grains have been scattered solely as the result of a normal agricultural planting, harvesting, post-harvest manipulation or normal soil stabilization practice; • From a blind or other place of concealment camouflaged with natural vegetation; • From a blind or other place of concealment camouflaged with vegetation from agricul- tural crops, as long as such camouflaging does not result in the exposing, depositing, distributing or scattering of grain or other feed; or • Standing or flooded standing agricultural crops where grain is inadvertently scat- tered solely as a result of a hunter entering or exiting a hunting area, placing decoys, or retrieving downed birds.
take from any stationary motor vehicle or stationary motor-driven land conveyance; • From or by means of any motorboat or other craft having a motor attached, or any sailboat, unless the motor has been completely shut off and/or the sails furled, and its progress there from has ceased except in pursuit of wounded waterfowl in the designated Sea Duck Area; • By the use or aid of live birds as decoys; although not limited to, it shall be a viola- tion of this paragraph for any person to take migratory waterfowl on an area where tame or captive live ducks or geese are present unless such birds are and have been for a period of 10 consecutive days prior to such taking, confined within an enclosure which substantially reduces the audibility of their calls and totally conceals such birds from the sight of wild migratory waterfowl; • By the use or aid of recorded or electrically amplified bird calls or sounds, or recorded or electrically amplified imitations of bird calls or sounds. This restriction does not apply during dates states have selected under the Conservation Order for light geese (i.e. snow and Ross’s geese) or those selected for the control of resident Canada geese. • 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 con centrating, driving, rallying, or stirring up of any migratory bird;
74
2024–2025
North Carolina Inland Fishing, Hunting & Trapping Regulations
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online