Warm Weather Worst Yukon Trapping Season
Probably bad news across the whole north.
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This year's warmer-than-usual weather has been bad for Yukon trappers.
In fact, Brian Melanson, president of the Yukon Trappers Association says this year has been awful.
"It's been a really quiet season this year. It's a combination of the low snow and the late freezing of the rivers and lakes and that. Also combination of low auction prices of the last two years.
"A lot of guys are finding other work and taking the season off."
Last year, the Trappers Association collected about 4,000 pelts of different species. This season, the association has collected barely a quarter of that.
"Fewer people are bringing in pelts," says Melanson.
"Just last week, we had a guy who continually harvests between 200 and 300 marten and several other species [per season]. This year, he came in and he had 52 marten. That's a first for him, and for that trapline, which has been trapped regularly since the 1960s."
Yukon has broken some weather records this year. Environment Canada says this November was the warmest it has been in 40 years.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/warm-weath...200000485.html
