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In 2000 there were 351 Mink farms in the U.S. [41] As of 2015 there were 176,573 trappers in the U.S. with most being in the midwest. [42] California was the first (and only) state to ban trapping for commercial and recreation purposes in 2015. [43] The North American Fur Auction (NAFA) occurs four times a year and attracts buyers from around ...
Modern fur trapping and trading in North America is part of a wider $15 billion global fur industry where wild animal pelts make up only 15 percent of total fur output. In 2008, the global recession hit the fur industry and trappers especially hard with greatly depressed fur prices thanks to a drop in the sale of expensive fur coats and hats ...
Aretha Franklin in a sapphire mink coat before a performance. Mink fur is the most popular fur traded worldwide. [32] Its fur is durable, and the hairs are rather short, but very thick and soft. The guard hairs do not break readily, and the underfur does not tend to become matted.
The domestic mink was given its trinomial name Neogale vison domesticus (then Mustela vison f. domesticus) by Eddy Decuypere in his work Is the Mink Domesticated? from 2011. [6] Formerly, all mink (including the sea mink) were placed in the genus Mustela. A 2000 study reclassified the domestic mink, American mink, and sea mink into the genus ...
The maritime fur trade, a ship-based fur trade system, focused largely on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. Entrepreneurs also exploited fur-bearing skins from the wider Pacific (from, for example, the Juan Fernández fur seal) and from the Southern ...
The Marine Mammal Protection Act identifies the Northern Fur Seal population as depleted with the California population of fur seals estimated to be around 14,000. In 1966, the United States Congress passed the Fur Seal Act which banned the hunting of fur seals with the exception of substance hunting by Indigenous Americans.
Mink are carefully evaluated in November or early December in order to physically assess their coat color, characteristics, and quality. Fur quality, along with skin size are two of the most important traits that are under intense selection in most mink breeding programs. [ 50 ]
Mississippi Valley mink N. v. letifera: Hollister, 1913 It has a light brown coat with white spots on the chin, throat and breast. Males measure 26 inches (66 cm) in total length and 9.4 inches (24 cm) in tail length. [9] Northern Wisconsin and northern South Dakota south to northern Illinois, northern Missouri and southern Kansas: East ...