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Trappers and Hunters Can Discuss New Regulations.

 

 The Cranberry Portage Local Fur Council will be holding a meeting tonight to discuss proposed regulations on trapping in the north.  Barry Jahn will give a presentation on new government regulations that came in after two unleashed dogs were killed in a park.  He says one of the more difficult ones was any trap set had to be 150 meters from a trail, route or designated route and there’s various restrictions there.  He says that meant in checking every trap you had to walk in and back 300 meters and if you have 50 to 60 traps out that gets to be a long day. He says a lot of these areas no one uses in the winter, there’s no park people there.

             

Jahn adds they asked for changes but the government came back with a still complicated zoning plan, designated trail and canoe routes and associated portages as well as restrictions on firearms in parks making it almost impossible to trap off the Grass River in a park.

             

The meeting will be tonight at 7 in the Natural Resources warehouse in Cranberry Portage. He says they want to address this issue and take it to politicians on behalf of trappers and hunters.

 

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