Common Hunting Violations
Following are some common violations of Alaska's regulations and statutes regarding hunting.
- Party hunting: filling another person's bag limit or sharing permits and tags
- Failure to know where one is hunting (wrong unit, closed area, controlled use area, etc.)
- Failure to punch or validate harvest ticket or permit
- Failure to return completed harvest or permit report
- Shooting from, on, or across a highway
- Shooting from a motorized vehicle while it is in motion
- Failure to salvage or possess the edible meat of a big game animal or wild fowl
- Failure to return specimens required for some hunts: teeth, horns, antlers, skull, etc.
- Failure to identify game: shooting wrong-size or wrong sex sheep and moose
- Aircraft misuse: same-day airborne hunting, aerial spotting or herding, etc.
- Using a harvest ticket in a permit hunt area
- Exceeding the bag limit by herd shooting and by being confused about hunting in single- and multiple bag limit areas
- Failure to leave proof of animal's sex attached to meat or hide as required
- Failure to report defense of life or property kills
- Failure to use export permit to ship raw skins
- Failure to sign duck stamps
- Shooting waterfowl before and after legal shooting hours
- Shooting an unplugged shotgun at waterfowl
- Failure to seal furbearers and bears within the time limit
- Using artificial lights for hunting big game and furbearers
- Failure to use steel shot for waterfowl