Mink Cull

[Foxy09 3]

Started a Mink cull this week for a local water authority, they have a marina for winter storage and residential barges on a canal, three of the owners recently returned to open up their boats after the winter to find they had been trashed by the mink, one lady thought she had been broken into! sightings are just abut every day from the staff and residents and one resident has started a good photo album of them including a big dog mink facing down his collie! they have no fear of humans at all here, as one of the staff told me yesterday he just about got close enough to touch one the other week... told him this wasn't a great idea! After the initial cull is complete there will be a mink raft placed in the marina and further down the canal for monitoring any newcomers. the scotttish Government is currently doing a study into the cost of removing invasive species altogether and the figure thats being thrown around at the moment is £25 million, be interesting to see the outcome. Some pics...

 

 

 

All the best

 

Foxy

[Richie10 345]

I could do it for far less.

[arnieboy 93]

ad do a few shifts for that money ! lol 25 million when theres people who would love the job and charge less what a waste for the sake of putting it out to tender

[Foxy09 3]

ad do a few shifts for that money ! lol 25 million when theres people who would love the job and charge less what a waste for the sake of putting it out to tender

 

It most likely would be put out to tender but it would be a massive task! and that price wouldnt be far off the mark when you think about what would be involved, with manpower, vehicles equipment, health and safety gear and even just the man hours involved in planning a cull of that size, and everyone would want paid and would want paid well, from the guy providing the fuel for the trucks to the person deciding what ppe you should wear when doing it to the person checking the traps! not the type of thing that could be accomplished in a couple of years.

 

Foxy

[Holdaway 2]

In your original post Foxy09 you stated that £25 million was for removal of invasive species altogether? That is a massive task and I would say impossible. Every grey squirrel, every mink, etc? £25 million wouldn't come close I don't think.

 

I remember a few years ago I used to bounty hunt Gooseanders for the tweed commission, then they stated they could only be shot whilst on the water in question (not flying over) and then they banned the cull altogether!

 

I think if we tried to eradicate any species no matter how destructive, the anti's would be up in arms calling it a holocaust or some such...

 

Still I wouldn't mind a couple of quid for every squirrel I take

 

H

[Foxy09 3]

Have to correct myself here after reading the paperwork again, they are estimating the cost that invasive species are having on the economy per year and the figure is said to be around £25 million, my mistake! definitely would be an gigantic task and would likely have to run or tens of years i would imagine.

 

Foxy

[Holdaway 2]

 

I think if everyone in britain with a gun went out one weekend we still wouldn't make a massive hole in the population... £25 million a year for damage. I honestly thought it would have been higher. Food crops, property, clean up. I suppose they are not counting rat and mice damage in that so £25 million for damages by invasive species might be about right.

 

Where's me gun...?

 

H

[Foxy09 3]

 

I think if everyone in britain with a gun went out one weekend we still wouldn't make a massive hole in the population... £25 million a year for damage. I honestly thought it would have been higher. Food crops, property, clean up. I suppose they are not counting rat and mice damage in that so £25 million for damages by invasive species might be about right.

 

Where's me gun...?

 

H

 

I think they are only counting the likes of Mink, Squirrel, and a few bird species like the parakeet etc if rats and mice were included we would be talking hundreds of millions i reckon.

 

Foxy

[Yokel Matt 918]

A dedicated and concerted effort similar to that used on Coypu would be a good start to get the mink population on the back foot. Trouble is most of the government nobs in charge have most of their experiance out of books, then hire professionals to tell them hown to do it, ignore their advise and do it their own way.

[Holdaway 2]

A dedicated and concerted effort similar to that used on Coypu would be a good start to get the mink population on the back foot. Trouble is most of the government nobs in charge have most of their experiance out of books, then hire professionals to tell them hown to do it, ignore their advise and do it their own way.

 

 

That sound very familiar. I believe certain parties on here have been fighting beaurocracy for years and are still not being listened to, whether it's trapping or snaring.

 

I have no idea why or how the grey squirrel was introduced over here, or whether it escaped from small zoo, but the damage is done. MINK however, released by the numpty anti's have devastated our countryside and forced a lot of species to the edge of extinction. I would love to see those little sods exterminated. I am busy doing my part for the mink cull by avoiding them all together... Three body grip sets down by the river, since a flood washed all tracks away a month ago, there has been no signs at all. I pulled the traps.

 

I believe they are reintroducing beaver into some parts of Scotland, or are considering it. Bang go the salmon stocks when they start to dam the feeders streams...

 

Still I know a man up there who might come in handy if they do!

 

H

[Foxy09 3]

A dedicated and concerted effort similar to that used on Coypu would be a good start to get the mink population on the back foot. Trouble is most of the government nobs in charge have most of their experiance out of books, then hire professionals to tell them hown to do it, ignore their advise and do it their own way.

 

 

That sound very familiar. I believe certain parties on here have been fighting beaurocracy for years and are still not being listened to, whether it's trapping or snaring.

 

I have no idea why or how the grey squirrel was introduced over here, or whether it escaped from small zoo, but the damage is done. MINK however, released by the numpty anti's have devastated our countryside and forced a lot of species to the edge of extinction. I would love to see those little sods exterminated. I am busy doing my part for the mink cull by avoiding them all together... Three body grip sets down by the river, since a flood washed all tracks away a month ago, there has been no signs at all. I pulled the traps.

 

I believe they are reintroducing beaver into some parts of Scotland, or are considering it. Bang go the salmon stocks when they start to dam the feeders streams...

 

Still I know a man up there who might come in handy if they do!

 

H

 

I dont know places and names but i believe the grey squirrel was introduced by some victorian gentleman while on a trip to america thought it would be nice to introduce some of these lovely little creatures onto his country estate back in england...then all his friends decided to do the same with their estates! thats how i heard they came to be in this country dont know if its definitely the case though.

 

Foxy

[Fidgety 8]

a cull of any kind would be limited to research and practical within a budget making it impossible to turn things round. the simple answer is bring back the bountys and give all a go from the proffesional trapper to the hobbist.

...for JBS ... for a change...

Edited April 3, 2009 by Fidgety