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Department of Conervation of Louisiana 



THE FUR TAKE IN LOUISIANA— Continued 

 1913 to 1929 



Licensed Trappers of Louisiana 



Previous to 1917-1918 season, the possessor of a legal 

 hunting license was permitted to trap fur animals in Louis- 

 iana ; therefore it is impossible to secure an accurate enum- 

 eration of trappers. For the 1917-1918 season the new law 

 requiring all trappers to hold a $2.00 state-wide trapping 

 license went into effect and continued up to the end of the 

 1919-1920 season, when the legislature again removed the 

 special trapping license feature, making it permissible to 

 trap fur animals on a hunter's license. 



For the 1922-1923 season a $1.25 combination trapping 

 and hunting license law was enacted, providing for all 

 those who trapped to secure the trapping license allowing 

 the legal right of hunting for 25 cents extra. The first year 

 this law went into effect witnessed the high mark in trap- 

 ping licenses purchased in Louisiana, 28,600 trappers pay- 

 ing the fee. This season also marked the year of the greatest 

 fur take in Louisiana, estimates of those in the fur trade 

 ranging from 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 muskrats being 

 shipped out of the state. 



