DFG GETS PLANS TO REGULATE WCOs
The Animal Protection Institute (API) has prepared and submitted to the Department of Fish and Game,
its recommendation for the regulation of the California wildlife control industry. Nicole G. Paquette Esq., General Counsel and Camilla H. Fox, National Campaign Director of API co-authored the plan and submitted it to the Department of Fish and Game in July.
The scheme to regulate the state's WCOs begins with suggestions for implementing SB 1645 and expands beyond the trapping of mammals into virtually every aspect of wildlife control including proposed regulations that would differentiate between commercial fur trapping and nuisance animal trapping. Other ideas offered by API deal with the relocation and euthanasia of trapped animals, testing and training of WCOs, customer relations, reporting requirements, and use of traps.
Shortly following submission of the API proposal, a competing plan developed by NWCOA and published in WTC Magazine, was quickly copied and forwarded to Deputy Chief Gonzales by CNWCOA member Mike Taber of Wildlife Control Technology in Fresno.
Copies of the API and NWCOA plans are being mailed out to all CNWCOA members with the hope that they will carefully review the two plans and submit any comments they may have to the Association 's Board of Directors .
The Department of Fish and Game expects to submit its recommendations for regulatory and statutory changes to the Fish and Game Commission in December of 2003.
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