ClS—Lancaster Faming, Saturday, April 5,1980
Several records set for state
HARRISBURG - All
previous records for returns
on Pennsylvania furs were
broken during the 1978-79
marketing year, according
to final figures compiled by
the Game Commission.
During the 1978-79 year,
licensed raw fur dealers
purchased 806,299 pelts
taken m the state by trap
pers. The figure is higher
than the 751,949 taken the
preceding year.
Declines in the harvests of
muskrats, opossums and
weasels were recorded,
while increases were noted
in the harvests of skunks,
minks, beavers, raccoons
and red and gray foxes.
Dealers bought 287,431
raccoons from Pennsylvania
trappers last year for
$4,614,059.48, an average of
Wins top sales honors
K & S, Inc., Van Dale distributor in Quarryville, has earned top Van Dale sales
honors by winning the Van Dale Sales Volume Award. Making the presentation
was Van Dale President, Robert P. White, right. Accepting the award for K & S,
Inc., was Tom Snyder.
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$16.05 per pelt. Next on the
value list were 392,137
muskrats, which brought
$1,874,155.23, an average of
$4.78 each.
The 26,003 red boxes
bought in the Keystone State
last year returned
$1,461,933.44 to trappers, an
average of $56.22 per pelt.
This was the highest-priced
pelt sold last year.
Following were 21,194 gray
foxes, which dealers bought
for $857,973.21, an average of
$40.48 per pelt.
Other major items in the
sale of furs were 62,631
opossums bought for
$193,947.30, an average of
$3.10 per skin; 5,266 minks
which bought $82,035.90, an
average of $15.58 each; 3,184
beavers which sold for
$68,289.78, an average of
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$21.45 per pelt; and 989
weasels, which returned
$538, or 54 cents each.
The $9,168,971.43 paid last
year for the furs marketed in
the state is a new record.
Prior to the 1978-79
marketing year, the record
prices paid for Pennsylvania
furs were established in 1977-
78, when Keystone pelts
brought trappers
$7,122,901.23.
The figures represent only
furs harvested in Penn
syvlama by hunters and
trappers and bought by
Pennsylvania licensed raw
fur dealers. Furs shipped or
transported out of state by
the trapper or held for his or
her own use are not included
in the tabulations.
It is to be emphasized that
the tabulations are for furs.
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fur take
that were taken from
November, 1978, through
March, 1979, and purchased
during the 1978-79 marketing
year. The tabulations do not
include furs marketed
during the most recent 1979-
80 furtaking seasons.
The value of Pennsylvania
furs has changed drastically
m the past few years. Prior
to 1975, the total fur value
never exceeded $3 million.
The total value of all Penn
sylvania furs ten years ago
was $646,646. The $714,928.50
paid out for Keystone State
furs m 1968 had been “the
best fur season smce 1955,”
according to a Game
Commission news release at
that time.
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