Definitions

Body-Grip Trap: a steel trap designed to allow the animal’s head, neck or torso to enter the trap opening and be held by compression of the jaws when sprung.

Cable Restraint: a cable noose used for restraining furbearing animals that does not allow the device or trapped animal to reach unfrozen water.

Cage or Box Trap: a trap that is designed to allow an animal to enter the trap enclosure, be captured and remain alive inside the cage or box-type enclosure until it can be released unharmed or reduced to possession by the operator of the trap. This trap may not be used as a water set.

Capable of Submersing: a set designed to allow the trapped animal to travel to water of sufficient depth to cause irreversible complete submersion.

Colony Trap: an enclosure-type device that allows for the capture of one or more furbearing animals in a single setting as a submersion set.

Enclosed Trigger Trap: any trap with a push- or pull-activated trigger located inside an enclosure and recessed 1¼ inches or more from an opening that is no greater than 1¾ inches in diameter. The diameter of the opening is measured as the straight-line distance across the opening between the two inside points that are farthest apart. If the opening is square or rectangular, this measurement must be made from the two opposite corners that are furthest apart.

Foot-Activated Cable Restraint: a passive- or spring-activated cable noose used for restraining furbearing animals by the foot that does not allow the device or trapped animal to reach unfrozen water.

Furbearing Animal: for the purpose of this pamphlet, bobcat, fisher, otter, coyote, raccoon, red fox, gray fox, mink, muskrat, beaver, skunk, weasel, woodchuck and opossum are included in this definition.

Green Pelts: a skin that has not been removed from the carcass or the pelt of any furbearing animal that has been removed but has not been tanned or fleshed, stretched and dried.

Jawed Trap: a trap designed to catch an animal by the foot but does not include enclosed trigger traps, cable restraints or body-gripping traps.

Non-Submersion Set: any trap set that is capable of capturing an animal and not capable of submersing the captured animal.

Raw Fur: the undressed or untanned skins or pelts of any furbearing animal that have been stretched and dried.

Reverse-Bend Washer Lock: a mechanical washer lock with a minimum outside diameter of 1¼ inches and includes a bend in the washer sufficient enough to allow the lock to relax or release pressure on the captured animal when the animal stops pulling. Pictured below.

Photo Credit: Natalene Cummings 

Snare: a wire noose used for restraining furbearing animals in a water set.

Submersion Set: any trap set capable of capturing an animal and capable of submersing the captured animal. A body-grip trap is not a submersion set when more than one-half of the trap is located above water after the trap has been fired.

Water Set: a trap or snare that is set or staked in a manner to permit the trap, snare or trapped animal to reach unfrozen water.