Migratory Birds Regulations, 2022 (SOR/2022-105)

Marginal note:Non-toxic shot

• 38 (1) A person must not hunt a migratory game bird

  • (a) while having in their possession in the hunting area shot other than non-toxic shot; or

  • (b) using shot other than non-toxic shot.

• Marginal note:Exception for certain species

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to hunting American Woodcock, Band-tailed Pigeon, Murres or Eurasian Collared-Dove.

• Marginal note:Exception — Mourning Dove

  (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to hunting Mourning Dove in British Columbia.

• Marginal note:Definition — non-toxic shot

  (4) For the purpose of this section, non-toxic shot means any shot composed, by weight, of

  • (a) up to 100% iron, tungsten, tin or bismuth, alone or in any combination of those substances;

  • (b) not more than 45% copper;

  • (c) not more than 40% nickel;

  • (d) not more than 7% Nylon 6, Nylon 11 or ethylene methacrylic acid copolymer, alone or any combination of those substances; and

  • (e) not more than 1% all other substances combined.