Snare Trap Quizzed

STONE HARBOR – During a discussion of the activities of Stone Harbor’s Natural Resources Committee April 16, Mayor Judith Davies-Dunhour raised the question of the state’s Fish and Wildlife Division’s use of snare traps in the Point Conservation Management District.
Davies-Dunhour asked borough officials to seek avenues through which the borough could have greater say in the trapping activities at the Point.
The issue arose when a member of the public, “being where he was clearly not allowed to be,” Davies-Dunhour acknowledged, came on a snare trap.
Seasonal trapping is part of a program to protect endangered species from predators. Some environmental and animal rights groups see the snare trap as inhumane. The state allows but regulates the use of snare traps by those with trapping licenses.