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Conservation officers seized 33 illegally-harvested moose and laid 107 charges after checking nearly 4,000 hunters in southeastern Ontario, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry reports.

They also seized two firearms and have 17 investigations still underway.

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Officers were checking for compliance with the wildlife conservation laws and regulations in Pembroke, Bancroft and Parry Sound areas from Oct. 20-28 and were “paying

particular attention to hunter safety and moose sustainability issues” including stopping the spread of chronic wasting disease.

Hunters were warned or charged for:

• shooting from, along or across a road

• having a loaded firearm in a vehicle

• night-hunting offences

• not wearing proper hunter orange

• trespassing for the purpose of hunting

• failing to wear a proper helmet on an ATV

• not having a lifejacket or safety equipment on a boat

• hunting moose, white-tailed deer or migratory birds without a licence

• failing to immediately seal a moose

• failing to immediately seal a deer while party hunting

• harvesting a moose without the appropriate licence

• hunting moose and white-tailed deer in the closed season

• using lead shot to hunt migratory birds

• failing to leave a fully feathered wing on a migratory bird for identification purposes

• providing a false statement to a conservation officer

• having open liquor in a vehicle

• driving an off-road vehicle without insurance