---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 92.20"
title: "50"
number: "92.20"
heading: "Methods and means."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/92.20"
---

# §92.20. Methods and means.


You may not use the following devices and methods to harvest migratory birds:

- (a) Swivel guns, shotguns larger than 10 gauge, punt guns, battery guns, machine guns, fish hooks, poisons, drugs, explosives, or stupefying substances;
- (b) Shooting from a sinkbox or any other type of low-floating device that affords the hunter a means of concealment beneath the surface of the water;
- (c) Hunting from any type of aircraft;
- (d) **Taking waterfowl and other species using live birds as decoys, except for auklets on Diomede and St.** Lawrence islands (Use of live birds as decoys is a customary and traditional means of harvesting auklets on Diomede and St. Lawrence islands.);
- (e) Hunting with the aid of recorded bird calls;
- (f) Using any type of vehicle, aircraft, or boat for the purpose of concentrating, driving, rallying, or stirring up of any migratory bird, except boats may be used to position a hunter;
- (g) Having in possession or using lead or other toxic shot while hunting (Approved nontoxic shot types are listed in [§ 20.21(j)](/cfr/50/20.21.md?p=j) of subchapter B.);
- (h) Shooting while on or across any road or highway;
- (i) Using an air boat (Interior and Bristol Bay Regions only) or jet ski (Interior Region only) for hunting or transporting hunters;
- (j) Using private or chartered aircraft for hunting or transporting hunters, except for transportation between community airstrips (Unit 18, Yukon/Kuskokwim Delta Region only); or
- (k) By the aid of baiting, or on or over any baited area, where a person knows or reasonably should know that the area is or has been baited, as provided at 50 CFR [20.21(i)](/cfr/50/20.21.md?p=i) and [16](/cfr/50/16.md) U.S.C. 704(b).

## Notes

### Amendments

[68 FR 43028, July 21, 2003, as amended at 69 FR 17327, Apr. 2, 2004; 70 FR 18248, Apr. 8, 2005; 71 FR 10408, Feb. 28, 2006; 72 FR 18323, Apr. 11, 2007]

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 703-712.

### Source

Source: 67 FR 53517, Aug. 16, 2002, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[68 FR 43028, July 21, 2003, as amended at 69 FR 17327, Apr. 2, 2004; 70 FR 18248, Apr. 8, 2005; 71 FR 10408, Feb. 28, 2006; 72 FR 18323, Apr. 11, 2007]