INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) – Otter trapping season closed a few days early when Hoosiers reached the quota Wednesday. The season, which started Nov. 15, 2025, was scheduled to end this coming Sunday.

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission plans to ban trapping of beavers throughout the Black Hills area where their populations have declined, while also allowing more ...

March 27 (UPI) --The Wisconsin zoo searching for a pair of escaped otters said one of the animals was nearly caught in a trap, but the attempt was foiled by a meddling raccoon. The New Zoo & Adventure ...

SUAMICO, Wis. (WBAY) - Louie and Ophelia are still at large. The two otters who recently escaped from the NEW Zoo have not yet been retrieved, but the zoo released new video showing one of the otters ...

The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) is reminding trappers about its otter research project to examine annual survival, harvest rates, habitat use and movement rates. Radio-tagged ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's first river otter trapping season since the furry species was reintroduced to the state in the 1990s following a long absence has seen trappers take two-thirds of the ...

It was back at deer camp that my good buddy from my days of growing up, Doug Cibulka told me that his 16-year-old son, Derek, and himself had otter trapping tags. All that needed to be said was that ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least 500 otters have been caught so far in Illinois' first river otter trapping season since 1929, and authorities say the prime weeks are still ahead. Bob Bluett of the ...