Code of practice - Northern Hunt & Safari

Code of practice – Guidelines for Northern Hunt & Safari

1.
The responsible guide/outfitter has experience in hunting tourism business as well as knowledge and experience from the tourism industry in general

2.
Guide/outfitter must have a registered company/business.

3.
Hunting is only for game species covered by the general hunting seasons or different types of licensed hunting.

4.
Guide/outfitter only hunts on areas that he/she has knowledge about and legal access to.

5.
Guide/outfitter shall set up a hunting management plan for the current hunting areas, which is revised annually. The following shall be included in hunting management plan

Consultation and necessary agreements with landowners, locals, hunting clubs and indigenous people

Map of hunting areas
Estimation of game populations
Bag limit for each species
Hunting methods
Number of hunters
Number of hunting days
Number of encounters

6.
Guide/outfitter shall set up a hunting account (follow up) for each year which includes the following components:

Reports of consultation and necessary agreements with landowners, locals, hunting clubs and indigenous people
Amount of bagged game
Age and gender distribution of bagged game
Hunting methods
Number of hunting days with clients

7.
Safety

Guide/outfitter must have documented knowledge of first aid which is regularly updated
A safety plan is drawn up for hunting activities

8.
Marketing & selling

Marketing is always reliable and does not promise anything that can not be “resonable expected”.
Guide/outfitter should highlight the local hunting culture in marketing communication of hunting products.