Wisconsin Code § 29.351

Skins of fur-bearing animals
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(1g) No person
may possess or control the skin of any mink, muskrat, fisher, pine
marten, or otter showing that the animal was shot.
(1m) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), or unless otherwise
authorized by the department, no person may possess or control
the green skin of any fur-bearing animal from the 5th day after

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the beginning of the closed season for that animal until the end of
that closed season.
(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to any of the following:
1. A fur-bearing animal that was lawfully taken and that has
a valid registration tag attached to it by the department.
2. A fur-bearing animal that is taken as authorized under s.
29.337.
3. A fur-bearing animal that was lawfully taken for which an
open season is established by rule and for which no bag or possession limit is imposed by rule.
(1r) No person may possess the raw skin of any muskrat,
mink, otter, fisher, or pine marten at any time unless the person is
the holder of a valid scientific collector permit, fur dealer license,
trapping license, mentored trapping license, or resident conservation patron license. No license is required for a person breeding,
raising, and producing domestic fur-bearing animals in captivity,
as defined in s. 29.627, or for a person authorized to take
muskrats on a cranberry marsh under a permit issued to the person by the department.
(2m) Subsections (1g) to (1r) do not apply to the skins of furbearing animals that are subject to regulation under ch. 169.

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