The state’s Fisheries and Wildlife Board voted Wednesday to ban coyote hunting contests.

The regulations will go into effect after they are signed administratively and filed with the secretary of state’s office.

The ban will prohibit hunting contests for “predators and furbearers,” which includes coyote, bobcat, red fox, gray fox, weasels, mink, skunk, river otter, muskrat, beaver, fisher, raccoon and opossum.

On its website, the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, or MassWildlife, wrote that the new rule “addresses public concerns that these hunting contests are unethical, contribute to the waste of animals, and incentivize indiscriminate killing of wildlife.”