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President's Report
by Charles Neveu
Hi Canadian trappers! My name is Charles Neveu and I am the
newly elected President of the NB Trappers & Fur Harvesters
Federation. I want to congratulate this years executive,
Miles Boone, 1st Vice President, Carl (the legend) Cyr, 2nd
Vice President, Gerry Williamson, Secretary and Stephen
Scott, Treasurer. I also want to say Thank you to Dale Clark
& Marshall Christie for all their good work for the
Federation and for the trappers of New-Brunswick. I hope
that you guys stay close to the Federation because we need
all the people together to achieve all our goals to promote
trapping and defend our rights.
As a small introduction from myself , I am in my 37th season
of trapping. I started at 10 years old trapping muskrats. I
am a Forest Technologist that worked for DNR for 2 years and
the past 25 years for a private woodland company. Trapping
is my biggest passion, but I am also a passionate woodland
botanist and hunter.
I would like to congratulate the Tobique and Northwest
Councils for the winter convention that was held in
Grand-Falls. Between the work shop and the convention, a day
was organised to promote the trapping industry at grade 4
students around the region. During the day over 250 students
passed through the display and were divided in groups of 15
to explain to them the different habitats of all the
furbearers of the province. Thank you to Fur Harvesters (
Mark Finnigan and John Richard ) for explaining to the
students the process that fur goes through after their
shipment to them. Also thank you to DNR representatives for
explaining the laws and regulations for trapping. Special
thanks to Claire Caron, Executive Director of the NB
Wildlife Trust Fund that helped us with their fund money to
pay for this event.
At the Banquet one of the MLAs made the announcement that
for the next season the NB trappers will get one more week
at the beginning of the season for the aquatic species and
that we will finally be able to bring a .22 rimfire rifle to
humanely dispatch the predators on Sundays. The new
executive will continue to work very hard to get our
resolutions accepted by government. The hot topics are the
Canadian Lynx status and to get the black bear back as a
furbearer species.
As a new president my goals are to work as a team with the
executive, to promote trapping around the province, make the
Federation stronger by getting more members and to work in
partnership with the government to make sure the trappers
have a word to say at the implementation of new regulations
and on trapping issues.
To conclude, I want to welcome everybody at the Summer
Rendezvous July 13-14-15 2012 at Woolastook Park.
Respect the environment and the animals and whenever
possible, bring a kid trapping.
Charles Neveu
NBTFHF President
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