Hunters who pull the trig­ger af­ter yes­ter­day could face a stag­ger­ing $100,000 fine, as the 2025–2026 Hunt­ing Sea­son of­fi­cial­ly comes to an end.

In a re­minder to the pub­lic, the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries con­firmed that all hunt­ing ac­tiv­i­ty on pub­lic and pri­vate lands ceased yes­ter­day, Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2026, with the sea­son for­mal­ly clos­ing to­day, Sun­day, March 1.

The warn­ing comes amid con­tin­ued na­tion­al ef­forts to pro­tect wildlife pop­u­la­tions and pre­serve Trinidad and To­ba­go’s frag­ile eco­log­i­cal bal­ance. Of­fi­cials said the closed sea­son is crit­i­cal to al­low species to re­cov­er and en­sure long-term sus­tain­abil­i­ty of the coun­try’s nat­ur­al re­sources.

Be­yond the ces­sa­tion of hunt­ing, per­mit hold­ers now face a se­ries of strict dead­lines.

All game an­i­mal car­cass­es or parts must be re­moved from prop­er­ties and per­son­al pos­ses­sion by March 31, 2026.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, hold­ers of 2025–2026 Hunt­ing Per­mits are re­quired to sub­mit their Manda­to­ry Da­ta Re­turn Forms by May 31, 2026.

Fail­ure to do so will re­sult in a $2,500 fine per form.

The min­istry urged un­ters and the wider pub­lic to re­spect the law and play their part in pro­tect­ing the na­tion’s bio­di­ver­si­ty.

“The pro­tec­tion of our wildlife is a shared re­spon­si­bil­i­ty,” the min­istry stat­ed.