A trapper sets a trap for fisher following the state’s new requirement that most body-gripping traps be set at least five feet off the ground, or in the water or under ice, to reduce the risk to pets. This trap also complies with new requirements to cover any bait used in the set, in this case with evergreen branches, so that birds of prey are less likely to be attracted to the set.
MONTPELIER, Vt. – Trappers must ensure they are compliant with Vermont’s new trapping regulations that come into effect on January 1, 2024.
The new regulations include a requirement that live trapped animals be killed humanely and establish standards for trap types and use of baits to reduce the risk of catching pets and non-target wildlife. Trappers must also follow new guidelines for where traps can be placed, such as maintaining a 50 ft. setback distance from a legal trail, public trail or public highway unless set in the water or under ice.
“Vermont’s new trapping regulations will make trapping safer and more humane,” said Christopher Herrick, Commissioner of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. “They strike a middle ground between concerns raised by both activists and trappers, and are among the most comprehensive trapping regulations in the country.”
The full set of new regulations are available on the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department’s website. They will be taught in the department’s required trapper education course for new trappers, and published in the department’s annual hunting and trapping lawbook starting in 2025.
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board finalized Vermont’s new trapping regulations as part of a larger update to the state’s furbearing species rule. During the board’s rulemaking process, Vermont’s Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules (LCAR) filed an objection to elements of the new trapping regulations, including its exemption from the 50 ft. trail and highway setback for traps placed in the water or under the ice.
LCAR’s objection does not prevent the new trapping regulations from coming into effect. Instead, it requires the board and department to prove that the regulations are consistent with legislative intent and the requirements of administrative law if the regulations are challenged in court.
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“They strike a middle ground between concerns raised by both activists and trappers,”
With this statement the Commissioner avoids the word “compromise” as this was not a compromise. A “compromise” as defined in the Oxford dictionary is “an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions”, and as there was no consession made by anti trappers, once again, this was no more than a take away. Another domino falls….
And the fact remains that:
Trapping is opposed by two-thirds of all citizens.
Trapping is cruel, inhumane, and barbaric.
Torturing living beings isn’t “sport”, unless……. (comments that follow shall fill in the blank there).
And – all the actual facts and realities and statistics & data that support them were written of in VDC’s recent article:
https://vermontdailychronicle.com/medwid-the-iron-triangle/
Torturing living beings isn’t “sport”, unless…….you’re purchasing the flesh of animals raised in CAFOs such beef, pork chicken. The flesh of the animals I eat have never been confined in their own excrement, never been deprived of wide open green pasture, and never been deprived of natural sunlight. They’ve had good carefree lives until the last quick, humane end of their lives. We can’t make neat divisions about how some can be treated and not others, but that’s just my opinion.
Some of those commenting never seem to have much to say about the dismemberment of a human being (with heart beat) in the womb of it’s mother on the 9th month.
Help us here: is a trap that instantly crushes the animal the same type “torture” that places a living baby in an oven by people from Gaza?
These anti trapping advocates are reminiscent of the mindset that of late have been chanting, “from the river to the sea”.
Wait, that was about the genocide of Jews, sorry for the confusion.
But weren’t Jews considered ‘less than animals’ by the German for ‘National Socialist German Workers’ Party’?
Wait, how can Donald Trump be a Nazi – he’s not a Socialist?