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12-03-2018, 05:23 PM
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Anyone doing fisher relocation program
How many have gotten paid if you have?
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12-03-2018, 05:34 PM
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Curious what it is? Never heard of it.
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12-03-2018, 05:39 PM
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Alberta has a program to catch fisher live for washington state to be sent there after passing vet check.
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12-03-2018, 09:01 PM
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Never heard of it... I’d be interested if I had been contacted for the program
Maybe looking at a specific area / genetics? I’ve caught a few dandies that would have been a handful in a live trap
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12-03-2018, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Flight01
Never heard of it... I’d be interested if I had been contacted for the program
Maybe looking at a specific area / genetics? I’ve caught a few dandies that would have been a handful in a live trap
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That’s a fisherine!!!!
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12-03-2018, 10:48 PM
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I’d contact this organization to get the straight goods on the program.
“While fisher reintroductions into the North Cascades including Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and the North Cascades in North Cascades National Park Service Complex were delayed in 2017 due to severe fires near our fisher source area in British Columbia, plans are underway to resume the next phase of the project in 2018, possibly with fishers from both Alberta and B.C.”
https://www.conservationnw.org/our-w...ldlife/fisher/
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12-03-2018, 11:08 PM
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I wonder if washington is having a porcupine problem . Not long ago i was reading a 1982 mag and bc was paying alberta trappers for live fisher. Porcupines in the interior were reaking havoc on cedars ( if i remember right ) .
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12-04-2018, 05:46 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flight01
Never heard of it... I’d be interested if I had been contacted for the program
Maybe looking at a specific area / genetics? I’ve caught a few dandies that would have been a handful in a live trap
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Bill Abercrombie is looking after it you can call them and see if they are looking for anyone else I know a few people backed out, his company is Bushman Inc
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12-04-2018, 07:58 AM
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fisher
Rob M, has participated in the program. He wrote good story in last AO magazine ( oct issue)
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12-04-2018, 07:58 AM
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I have sent 2 in and still waiting for the cheq just seeing who all has been waiting?
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12-05-2018, 08:56 AM
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Picked all my traps and handling boxes yesterday. Oddly enough I received calls yesterday asking about trapping Fishers that are stealing cats, perfect timing. This is a good program for the trapper.
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12-05-2018, 03:51 PM
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My trapping partner and I have taken 5 so far. They were all caught in a 10 day span just before this heavy snow.
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12-07-2018, 08:33 AM
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Thunder, do you have to include the total take of fisher for your line, or are you exempt for live trapped ones?
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12-07-2018, 10:14 AM
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It isnt part of your quota
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12-09-2018, 10:08 AM
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It isnt part of your quota
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That is correct it is not part of our quota. Have not set any marten traps this year as we don't want to trap fisher and our small line we only take 4 to 8 marten a year any way so why risk killing a fisher.
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12-09-2018, 10:57 AM
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How many have gotten paid if you have?
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how much were they offering to pay per fisher? just curious.
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12-10-2018, 09:55 AM
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If memory serves me well, they were paying $600/ fisher when talked to the American in Westlock this summer.
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12-10-2018, 04:20 PM
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12-10-2018, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Big Grey Wolf
If memory serves me well, they were paying $600/ fisher when talked to the American in Westlock this summer.
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That’s decent cash for Fisher
How were the lucky trappers picked to participate in this windfall?
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12-10-2018, 05:50 PM
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Wonder what the middle man is getting
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12-11-2018, 08:50 AM
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Tork, the program was open to any trapper that wanted to participate, I guess until they ran out of live traps and wood boxes. Rob M wrote another story in this months trapper magazine, he caught 5 so far. Well done Rob should increase martin on our line next door.
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12-17-2018, 09:35 AM
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Picked up 2 on Saturday. Both went to the zoo for their vet checks Sunday am. Likely getting a free plane ride to Washington tomorrow am.
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12-17-2018, 10:08 AM
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Geez u catch a fisher and it's way more money than catching a wolf lol Wonder how that wolf program is going this year!
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12-17-2018, 02:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Grey Wolf
Tork, the program was open to any trapper that wanted to participate, I guess until they ran out of live traps and wood boxes. Rob M wrote another story in this months trapper magazine, he caught 5 so far. Well done Rob should increase martin on our line next door.
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Interesting. Was that an ATA deal ?
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12-17-2018, 02:06 PM
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Geez u catch a fisher and it's way more money than catching a wolf lol Wonder how that wolf program is going this year!
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Is there a wolf program this year ?
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12-17-2018, 07:58 PM
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There is, I just finished a 2 day wolf course paid for by the government for those with lines in the caribou zones. The program itself is to get final blessing next week I hear, pay for effort not results. ATA doesn't like the sound of a bounty. Goes against my grain to pay for effort instead of results, however 1 valid point is they may have already been through your line and poisoned and or aerial gunned them to non existence, but they still want you out there giving it a go. I am participating.
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12-18-2018, 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by boonerkiller
There is, I just finished a 2 day wolf course paid for by the government for those with lines in the caribou zones. The program itself is to get final blessing next week I hear, pay for effort not results. ATA doesn't like the sound of a bounty. Goes against my grain to pay for effort instead of results, however 1 valid point is they may have already been through your line and poisoned and or aerial gunned them to non existence, but they still want you out there giving it a go. I am participating.
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Good for you. I suspect when you spend a couple grand out of your pocket that $1057 check will be well spent to recoup your costs after you catch your 1 wolf....
Sure glad it starts next week well into trapping season already and past prime time for most species......
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12-18-2018, 02:35 PM
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Start a wolf program thread. You guys constantly whine and derail threads. Don't like it, get involved and try and change it. Wolf program is AB government run...enough said.
Fisher # 3 going for a plane ride.
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12-18-2018, 02:48 PM
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I actually had some input into it this year Spruce! Said my piece and it sounds like it didn't do much as it is pretty much the same as last year along wiht some training.
Yup it is Gov't run and that is a big part of the issue. I realise that as well. Part of the reason it's not even starting till later in the season which is a huge deal. Most guys are done their marten catch and I doubt will be doing much more trapping. Part of the issue I got stung last year is because I spent till the end of Wolf season trapping them and really that time of year is the only thing to catch other than a beaver under 3 feet of ice....
Wonder how they hand picked their trappers this year? My line is in Caribou country and I wasn't invited! Guess they got their hackles up with some suggestions.
Guess I could make a big stink about being invited or not as well..... thought we were all about equal opportunity?
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12-18-2018, 05:06 PM
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Quote:
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I actually had some input into it this year Spruce! Said my piece and it sounds like it didn't do much as it is pretty much the same as last year along wiht some training.
Yup it is Gov't run and that is a big part of the issue. I realise that as well. Part of the reason it's not even starting till later in the season which is a huge deal. Most guys are done their marten catch and I doubt will be doing much more trapping. Part of the issue I got stung last year is because I spent till the end of Wolf season trapping them and really that time of year is the only thing to catch other than a beaver under 3 feet of ice....
Wonder how they hand picked their trappers this year? My line is in Caribou country and I wasn't invited! Guess they got their hackles up with some suggestions.
Guess I could make a big stink about being invited or not as well..... thought we were all about equal opportunity?
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Done their marten catch What are you talking about ?? It's the middle of December lots of time and lots of fur to catch yet, if you don't like the program it's pretty simple don't participate I know plenty of trappers who target wolves and don't go looking for handouts. I do agree the money is a joke but move on and quit complaining
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