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Permits

The compulsory exam and the hunting-year fee

The hunter fee is valid for the whole country and for the hunting year, 1 April to 31 March.

Article 39 empowers the King to prescribe a test that must be passed in order to hunt and trap under this act — the jegerprøve — together with the examination fee, the compulsory course and the course fee. Article 40 adds the financial charge: whoever wants to hunt and trap under this act must pay the hunter fee (jegeravgift), at the rates and under the rules the King sets. Two details matter when planning a trip: the fee is valid for the whole country, and it covers the hunting year, reckoned from 1 April to 31 March inclusive. On top of that general fee comes a culling fee (fellingsavgift) for each animal whose taking is authorised or carried out among moose, red deer and wild reindeer. The King may decide that the municipality itself sets the culling fee for moose and red deer within a given frame.

Seasons

Seasons set species by species, and region by region

The King names the huntable species and the time frame; the directorate sets each species’ season and the areas.

Article 9 splits the decision in two. The King determines which species may be hunted and within what time frames hunting may take place. The directorate then sets the hunting season for each species and the areas in which hunting may occur. The act expressly allows a variable geometry: different hunting seasons may be set for different parts of the country. A season may also cover a particular time of day or week, and may differ between male and female, and between older and younger individuals of the species concerned. The directorate may also set culling quotas. For a visiting hunter the practical consequence is that a Norwegian date never stands alone: it applies to a species, an age or sex class, a region and sometimes a time of day — the decision in force for the target area is what counts.

Regulations

Norway: a harvest, within the biodiversity act

Wildlife is managed under the Nature Diversity Act; only within that frame may its production be harvested.

Norway's act on hunting and trapping of wildlife (viltloven) of 29 May 1981 states its purpose in one sentence: wildlife and its habitats are to be managed in accordance with the Nature Diversity Act, so that nature's productivity and species richness are preserved. Within that frame — and only within it — the wildlife production may be harvested for the benefit of farming and outdoor life. The definition is broader than in most neighbouring countries: wildlife covers all wild-living land mammals and birds, amphibians and reptiles. The act also applies in Norway's economic zone. Management runs on five levels, listed in article 4: the ministry, the directorate, the county governor (statsforvalter), the county authority (fylkeskommune) and the municipality. That chain explains the shape of Norwegian decisions: the frame is national, implementation reaches down to the municipality.

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