Wanton Waste Regulations as Approved by the Mass Fisheries and Wildlife Board December 19, 2019

Fast run down :

Regulations:
321 CMR 2.16: Prohibition on Contests for the Capture, Take or Waste of Predator and Furbearer
Animals
It shall be unlawful for any person to organize, sponsor, promote, conduct or participate in a contest in
which participants compete for prizes or other inducements that results in the capture, take or waste of
those predatory or furbearing animals regulated by the Division pursuant to 321 CMR 3.02(3) or
3.02(5)(b)(2.) and (5.-11.).
321 CMR 2.17: Prohibition on the Waste of Certain Game Animals and Birds

(1) It is unlawful for any person while hunting or trapping in accordance with 321 CMR 3.02 to waste an
animal or bird. For the purposes of 321 CMR 2.16 and 2.17, “waste” means to intentionally or knowingly
leave a wounded or dead animal or bird that the person has hunted or trapped in the field or the forest
without making a reasonable effort to retrieve the animal or bird and use it.

(2) Each such retrieved animal or bird shall be retained in the individual’s possession or transferred to
another and retained in their possession until processed or used as food, or for the pelt its fur, feathers,
or for taxidermy.
(3) Each retrieved animal or bird shall be checked in accordance with 321 CMR 3.02.

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