There is no shortage of otters in Canada but there is now a shortage of people trapping them and if no one traps them they will die of disease or starvation.
If it were legal to hunt otter in the winter when their skins are prime, in places like Ontario where they are not now legal to shoot, it would open up a whole new hunting sport venu for mid-winter just like lynx hunting would.
I suppose the way to get them would be to use dogs when they cross from lake to lake (the way they used to hunt them in Eangland), to bait them, or hunt along breathing places in the ice at places like rapids?
They have lovely pelts and would make as good full mount. Then there are fisher and marten and mink. If you could add about 7 more species to a winter sport hunting licence it would get more people into the bush.
