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2025 Delaware Code
Title 7 - Conservation
Chapter 7. REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS CONCERNING GAME AND FISH
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 709. Hours for hunting; federal laws and regulations; prohibitions and exceptions.
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§ 709. Hours for hunting; federal laws and regulations; prohibitions and exceptions.
No person shall pursue, catch, take or kill any migratory bird or fowl except within the hours permitted by federal laws and regulations. No person shall pursue, catch, take or kill any animal protected by the laws of this State except frogs, muskrats, raccoons, opossums, skunks, minks, otter and foxes between a half an hour after sunset of 1 day and a 1/2 before sunrise the following day. No person shall shoot muskrats within the hours named in this section.
26 Del. Laws, c. 165, § 7; 27 Del. Laws, c. 158, § 5; Code 1915, § 2380; 35 Del. Laws, c. 173, § 1; Code 1935, § 2828; 46 Del. Laws, c. 147, § 1; 7 Del. C. 1953, § 710; 49 Del. Laws, c. 150; 70 Del. Laws, c. 275, §§ 49, 71;
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