Self guided in Canada

[M_59]

Talking waterfowl here. You can only bring back your possession limit. "Leader" of our group has been going for 35 years so knows quite a few people up there. First 3 days we gift our birds. The last 3 we process to bring home. Not that big of a deal if we happen to come home short. Again, you can only bring back your possession limit and they have to have a wing attached.

[knighttime25]

I met a couple guys from Utah this season that travel to Saskatchewan every year for birds and they've created some friendships with locals up there that take their breasted birds to make into pepperoni and stuff for themselves. Seems like a win-win situation. They get to shoot more birds and the locals have lots of meat to use at their preference. 

[Shannon]

Stein-its both. Sask only allows three days of limits in your possession and the US Fish and Wildlife only allows you to bring back three days of limits when you enter back in. You have to list species and counts for each on a form and most of the time they verify your counts. Depends on which crossing you go through, how busy they are, and if a Fish and Wildlife officer is on duty.

[Wetwoodshunter]

The idea is that once they are frozen they no longer count toward your possession limit, same as when you process them at home.

https://wdfw.wa.gov/help/questions/49/What+is+the+difference+between+the+daily+catch+limit+and+the+possession+limit+for+fish%3F+

Just a heads up if you do that in Washington you can still get busted. WDFW added the language so in possession means any time in transit regardless of how it is processed.

From the fishing regs:

Salmon - Two daily limits of fresh salmon. An additional 40 pounds of salmon may be
possessed in a frozen or processed form (see
pages 10-11).

That's from WDFW for fish caught in Washington, like I mentioned, Canada may be different and importing it may be different.  I'm guessing it is Canada as shipping or transporting multiple limits of processed fish or game is commonplace in the US.

I stand corrected. I wish the regs were easier to understand and didnt have multiple sections saying different things.

[h2ofowlr]

The idea is that once they are frozen they no longer count toward your possession limit, same as when you process them at home.

Federal regs read until fully consumed.  Processed or not.  I received a letter on this a few years ago form the USFW service for clarification.  This is something that should be revised though.  Possession limit until processed.