Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 250 - Department of Environmental Management › Chapter 60 - Fish and Wildlife › Subchapter 00 - N/A › Part 9 - R.I. Hunting and Trapping Regulations for the 2023 - 2024 and 2024 - 2025 Seasons › Section 250-RICR-60-00-9.17 - General

Current through June 14, 2024
A. A valid hunting license is required for
				  any State designated hunting season.
B. Taking of moose (
Alces
				  alces
), black bear (
Ursus americanus
), bobcat, or any
				  other species for which there is no promulgated season by any method is
				  prohibited except as provided under special permit issued by the Director of
				  the Department of Environmental Management.
C. The importation, exportation, possession,
				  liberation, rehabilitation or sale, offer for sale, barter, or offer for barter
				  of mute swans and their eggs is prohibited, except by special permit issued by
				  the Director of the Department of Environmental Management or his/her
				  designee.
D. The importation,
				  exportation, possession, liberation, or sale, offer for sale, barter, or offer
				  for barter of any live or pen-reared wild turkey or eggs of a wild turkey is
				  prohibited. The possession of any dead untagged wild turkey is
				  prohibited.
E. Wanton Waste - No
				  person shall kill or cripple any game species pursuant to these Regulations
				  without making a reasonable effort to retrieve the animal and retain it in
				  his/her actual custody.
F. There is
				  no closed season for monk parakeets (
Myiopsitta monachus
),
				  rock dove (
Columbia livia
), house sparrow (
Passer
				  domesticus
), or European starling (
Sturnus
				  vulgaris
).
G. Fluorescent
				  orange requirement: fluorescent orange safety clothing is required during the
				  hunting season statewide for all hunters. To meet this requirement, safety
				  clothing must be solid daylight fluorescent orange. Fluorescent camouflage does
				  not meet this requirement. The orange must be worn above the waist and be
				  visible in all directions. Examples that meet the orange requirements are a hat
				  that covers two hundred (200) square inches or combination of hat and vest
				  covering five hundred (500) square inches. The following orange requirements
				  apply:
1. Two hundred (200) square inches by
				  small game hunters during the small game season.
2. Two hundred (200) square inches by fall
				  turkey hunters while traveling.
3.
				  Two hundred (200) square inches by muzzleloader deer hunters during
				  muzzleloader deer season.
4. Two
				  hundred (200) square inches by archery deer hunters when traveling to/from an
				  elevated stand during the muzzleloader deer season. Once in an elevated stand,
				  archery deer hunters are exempt from the orange requirement during the
				  muzzleloader deer season.
5. Five
				  hundred (500) square inches by all hunters and other users (including archers)
				  during shotgun deer seasons.
6.
				  Those hunters using pop-up blinds during the firearms deer season must display
				  two hundred (200) square inches of fluorescent orange visible on the outside of
				  the blind from all directions. Hunters must also wear orange in accordance with
				  the Rules for the specific seasons while in the blind.
7. Exempt from fluorescent orange
				  requirements are:
a. Waterfowl hunters
				  hunting from a boat or blind, over water or field, when done in conjunction
				  with decoys
b. Archery deer hunters
				  (except during muzzleloader and shotgun deer season)
c. Hunters crow hunting over decoys
d. Spring turkey hunters
e. First segment mourning dove
				  hunters
f. All users in areas
				  limited to Archery only by Regulation
g. Raccoon hunters when hunting at
				  night