So you’re against trapping but for fishing and hunting? Well you need to understand that trapping is very important to wildlife management. And honestly in some places more trappers are badly needed. In nature it’s a boom and bust population cycle; the predators multiply until they literally eat themselves out of a food supply and then die off in large numbers from starvation which causes a huge increase of they prey and then the predators population grows again until the cycle repeats itself. Well that worked until man came along. In some places man provided an almost limitless supply of food for either predator (livestock and pets), or their prey (agriculture, landscaping plants etc). So with hunting and trapping we can keep a balance. If you have rats in your home you don’t hunt them you trap them and you probably don’t eat them. Well this goes for wildlife habitat as well and farms ranches etc. Say you have an area where flooding is a problem and there are beavers damming up streams causing more flooding; trapping removes some to reduce flooding. Like small game hunting? Well an over population of predators can devastate small game. There is an area not far from me with LOTS of wolves, mink, marten, coyotes etc and you just don’t see any small game. No one wants to trap the area because its so hard to get to. You don’t see any deer there and very few moose. Well that could happen to lots of places if trapping was banned. And then those predators starving for food will move into areas where livestock are and even take peoples pets in their yard.
Trappers, hunters and fishermen need to stick together because all have a role in wildlife management. Honestly more animals are horribly injured by cars every year than hunting and trapping combined. And more small game and small fur bearers are killed or maimed by commercial operations such as farming and logging, than by trappers or hunters. That toilet paper came from trees that millions of people use every day and that caused animals to die or loose their homes. I wonder how many PETA people wipe their rear with grass and leaves.
If you educate yourself you will see your opinion on this is based on emotions not facts. You are doing the very same thing anti hunters and anti-fishing people are. ‘Oh that poor fish is dragged out of the water by its mouth suffocating to death in the air’
Edit; Fact the US Gov hires government trappers and hunters to kill aniamls, they may use poision gas and gas to death wolf pups in their den. They set out miles of traps and with so many to check it may be two days before they reach the trapped animal. They do this to prevent those animals from destroying proprty, roads, building, farm fields, livetock farms to prevent major loss of livestock. They do this so the farners and rancher dont suffer such losses they have to raise the prices for meat and produce. If all trappig was stopped the price of food would go sky rocket. That could mean a gallon of milk goes up to $25 a gallon, a bundle of salad up to $12, tomattoes at $8 a pound, so then a box of cerial may cost $35, a dozen eggs $45 and so foth; then Mc donalds would have to charge $20 for a hamburger and $15 for fries. But because the road to the store is flooded out from beaver dams no one can deliver all that. Also because of the flood shools are shut down, companies shut down that mean people miss work so get less pay, Then the city and state have to spend millions cleaning up the mess. And if its real bad flooding people could drown our loose their homes, See what I mean, Its very conplex and it has to be managed right or people will die and property destroyed.