Trappers Still Hoping For Disaster Assistance

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 13:31

 

 

A northern trapper says he hopes harvesters in Cumberland House will be eligible for disaster assistance if there’s another flood in 2007.

 

Clifford Carriere, the president of the N-28 fur block, says none of his members received financial compensation for traps and cabins lost during the last flooding in 2005.

 

Carriere says the effects of that flood have been long-lasting, and many of the animals who were once there are now gone.

 

He says he wishes the provincial government would try harder to understand the trapper’s situation and the devastation it had on their livelihood.

 

Carriere says several trappers applied for compensation, but were deemed ineligible because the government ruled their activity wasn’t their primary source of income.