Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 3 - DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION › Division 10 - Conservation Commission › Chapter 9 - Wildlife Code: Confined Wildlife: Privileges, Permits, Standards › Section 3 CSR 10-9.565 - Licensed Hunting Preserve: Privileges

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment clarifies the transportation
				  sticker fee for individuals operating under a Licensed Hunting Preserve Permit.
				  This amendment also increases the leg seals and transportation sticker fee for
				  individuals operating under a Licensed Hunting Preserve Permit to reflect a
				  more current cost adjustment based on changes in the Consumer Price
				  Index.
(1) Licensed hunting
				preserves are subject to inspection by an agent of the department at any
				reasonable time. Animal health standards and movement activities shall comply
				with all state and federal regulations. Any person holding a licensed hunting
				preserve permit may release on his/her licensed hunting preserve only legally
				obtained and captive-reared: pheasants, exotic partridges, quail, mallard
				ducks, and ungulates (hoofed animals) specifically authorized by the Approved
				Confined Wildlife Species List in
				3 CSR
				10-9.105(7) for game bird hunting
				preserves and big game hunting preserves for hunting throughout the year, under
				the following conditions:
(A) Game Bird
				Hunting Preserve.
1. A game bird hunting
				preserve shall be a single body of land not less than one hundred sixty (160)
				acres and no more than six hundred forty (640) acres in size. Game bird hunting
				preserves may be dissected by public roads, and shall be posted with signs
				specified by the department.
2.
				Only legally obtained and captive-reared: pheasants, exotic partridges, quail,
				and mallard ducks may be used on game bird hunting preserves.
3. Permits for game bird hunting preserves
				will not be issued-
A. For areas within five
				(5) miles of any location where there is an ongoing department game bird
				release program or where the most recent release of department game birds has
				been made less than five (5) years prior to receipt of the
				application;
B. In any location
				where those activities are considered by the department as likely to further
				jeopardize any species currently designated by Missouri or federal regulations
				as threatened or endangered wildlife; and
C. For preserves using captive-reared mallard
				ducks, within five (5) miles of the following areas:
(I) Brown (Bob) Conservation Area;
(II) Clarence Cannon National Wildlife
				Refuge;
(III) Columbia Bottom
				Conservation Area;
(IV) Coon Island
				Conservation Area;
(V) Duck Creek
				Conservation Area;
(VI) Eagle
				Bluffs Conservation Area;
(VII)
				Fountain Grove Conservation Area;
(VIII) Four Rivers Conservation
				Area;
(IX) Grand Pass Conservation
				Area;
(X) Leach (B. K.) Memorial
				Conservation Area;
(XI) Loess
				Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge;
(XII) Mara is Temps Clair Conservation
				Area;
(XIII) Mingo National
				Wildlife Refuge;
(XIV) Montrose
				Conservation Area;
(XV) Nodaway
				Valley Conservation Area;
(XVI)
				Otter Slough Conservation Area;
(XVII) Schell-Osage Conservation
				Area;
(XVIII) Settle's Ford
				Conservation Area;
(XIX) Shanks
				(Ted) Conservation Area;
(XX) Swan
				Lake National Wildlife Refuge; and
(XXI) Ten Mile Pond Conservation
				Area;
4.
				Mallard ducks must be held in covered facilities that meet standards specified
				in 3 CSR
				10-9.220, and may be possessed, released, and used on
				game bird hunting preserves only under the following conditions-
A. Mallard ducks may be taken, possessed,
				transported, and stored only as provided in this Code and federal
				regulations;
B. Mallard ducks must
				be physically marked prior to six (6) weeks of age by removal of the hind toe
				from the right foot, or by tattooing of a readily discernible number or letter
				or combination thereof on the web of one (1) foot;
C. Mallard ducks may be temporarily released
				for the sole purpose of flight training beginning one (1) hour after sunrise
				each day. Covered facilities must be designed to re-capture such ducks, and a
				reasonable effort must be made tore-capture them by one (1) hour after sunset
				each day;
D. Mallard ducks may be
				released and taken only from September 1 through February 15 by hunting methods
				from one (1) hour after sunrise to one (1) hour before sunset, and only
				non-toxic shot may be used. Covered facilities must be designed and managed to
				re-capture any unharvested mallard ducks, and a reasonable effort must be made
				to re-capture ducks by one (1) hour after sunset each day; and
E. Ducks which are not captive-reared may not
				be hunted on preserves using captive-reared mallard ducks, and all waterfowl
				except captive-reared mallard ducks must be flushed from the immediate hunting
				area prior to hunting activity.
5. Any person taking or hunting game birds on
				a licensed hunting preserve shall have in his/her possession a valids mall game
				hunting permit or licensed hunting preserve hunting permit, except that persons
				fifteen (15) years of age or younger, when accompanied by a properly licensed
				adult hunter, and residents sixty-five (65) years of age and older, may hunt
				without permit. Licensed hunting preserve hunting permits may be issued to
				persons without requiring display of a hunter education certificate card for
				use on game bird hunting preserves; provided s/he is hunting in the immediate
				presence of a properly licensed adult hunter age eighteen (18) or older who has
				in his/her possession a valid hunter education certificate card or was born
				before January 1, 1967.
6. Game
				birds, other than captive-reared mallard ducks, may be taken in any number on a
				hunting preserve and maybe possessed and transported from the preserve only
				when accompanied by a receipt listing the date, number, and species taken, and
				name of the hunting preserve; or when accompanied by an approved transportation
				sticker for each game bird taken. Transportation stickers must be purchased
				from the department by the hunting preserve permit holder, for which the
				permittee shall pay thirteen dollars ($13) per one hundred (100)
				stickers.
7. Captive-reared mallard
				ducks may be taken in any number on a hunting preserve and may be possessed and
				transported from the preserve only when accompanied by a receipt listing the
				date, number and species taken, and the hunting preserve permit holder's name
				and address. In addition, the marked foot must remain attached to mallard
				ducks.
8. The hunting preserve
				permit holder may exercise privileges provided in
				3 CSR
				10-9.353 for game birds held under this permit in
				propagation or holding facilities within or directly adjacent to the game bird
				hunting preserve. Propagation or holding facilities may be separated from the
				hunting preserve by a public road, but must be directly adjacent. Any such
				propagation or holding facilities shall meet standards specified in
				3 CSR
				10-9.220. Other propagation or holding facilities not
				contained within or directly adjacent to the hunting preserve are not covered
				under the privileges of this rule; NOTE: (See rule
				3 CSR
				10-7.440, and for federal regulations on migratory
				waterfowl, see Title 50, Parts 20 and 21 of the Code of Federal
				Regulations.)