I've been asking about this for years. Does anyone ever bug the heck out of the PGC about it? How about the PTA? Between this and no otter season yet, PGC looks as stupid as MD does for not allowing nonresidents in to trap beaver and otter. Why don't the trapper associations in both states do something for each issue? I don't even associate with MFT, they didn't want to try my ideas and thought I was crazy or something, and snubbed me. Some individuals were down right rude to me. Their loss. I've tried bugging some DNR people about the bvr/otter thing but apparently they are too pansy about animal activists- to change the reg they need to intro a bill and it " might draw the attention of the animal activists".
And yes, I have caught muskrats and mink when beaver trapping, thankfully I have done almost all of my beaver trapping in MD where I can keep such catches. I even caught a female mink once in a 330.