You can't prove out trapline activity by an office armchair check or by paper forms and receipts/declarations that may or not be honourable. In order to get an accurate audit who is or is not trapping on a given RFMFA, there need to be actual field checks done by Fish & Wildlife personnel throughout the trapping season (unannounced). This is the only way to know who is really trapping, how much fur they are really taking, and any other non-authorized activity that is occurring on the line. Means some actual hard-slugging fieldwork to flesh out the real trappers (who likely are the silent ones).
I understand this was the case when the Fish & Wildlife enforcement staff still had that mandate and they had a handle what was happening out in the field. Now, with it being the responsibility of biologists, limited to the office and budget constraints, the far-off RFMA's are a disconnect without answers. No way to make any logical decisions if they have no idea which lines are truly being trapped in a given winter.
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