Wildlife officials are proposing to open a river otter trapping season as early as next year.

Indiana's Natural Resources Commission approved rules Tuesday that allow a river otter trapping season.

Public comment is now open to the Indiana Natural Resources Commission, or NRC, for proposed changes to the state’s river otter trapping rules.

Indiana's first river otter trapping season since the furry species was reintroduced to the state in the 1990s has seen trappers take two-thirds of the state's limit less than halfway into that season ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) – There’s one last chance to tell Indiana’s Natural Resources Commission what you think about its proposed rule changes for deer hunting and otter trapping. Comments can ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota could become the latest state to allow the killing of North American river otters, an animal that was once nearly wiped out in parts of the U.S. by unregulated ...

More than 15,000 otters in Illinois are pilfering fish from fishermen and disrupting the local ecosystem. To deal with it, the state is allowing an otter trapping season for the first time in 87 ...

Animals Idaho wildlife officials expand river otter trapping About 100 otters statewide have been killed so far this trapping season, according to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.

The inaugural otter trapping season in 2016 was the culmination of one of Pennsylvania’s greatest conservation success stories. At one point, river otters were nearly extirpated in the state,… ...

Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners votes to allow trapping for river otters in Pennsylvania for first time since 1952.

SALMON — The river otter harvest quota for Idaho’s Salmon Region was reached on Thursday, March 27. The otter trapping season for the entire region closes 72 hours after the harvest quota has ...