No person shall, by moonlight or with the aid or by use of any lamp, lantern or artificial light, shoot or kill with a rifle of any kind or description, or any firearm or shotgun, a mink, muskrat or otter in this State, or take or attempt to take the same except by means of a trap or disturb or destroy any muskrat lodge or nesting chamber.
N.J.S. § 23:4-37