The Wild Fisher
Back in the 1970s, West Virginia and New Hampshire made an exchange. The mountain state needed fishers, and the granite state was determined to reintroduce the extirpated wild turkey.
In the 1980s, Connecticut made another contract through the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department where New Hampshire trappers were paid for securing live, healthy fisher for re-introduction in that state.
In the 1990s, Pennsylvania requested some of New Hampshire’s black cats, In an arrangement like the one with Connecticut.
It seems that whenever another state wants these lively, tough little furbearers, New Hampshire gets a call. New Hampshire has a healthy population of fisher supported by plenty of the forest habitat fishers like and a lot of the things they like to eat—but not a lot of things that like to eat them.
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The fisher is a fascinating predator and a symbol of the remaining wild places in the East. The fisher, resembles a large mink. Ranging in color from reddish to brownish- grey to almost black, most display a white patch of varying size on the chest and throat area. Ears are rounded, nose prominent and blunt the furry and tapered tail is nearly as long as the body. The male, which weighs 14 pounds or so, is twice the size of the female. Both sexes’ claws are curved like fishhooks, and the teeth seem excessive for an animal this size.
The female bears her young, usually three, in April. Although breeding takes place only a week or so later, gestation itself is delayed until sometime late the following winter. Biologists believe that because the fisher is so efficient a predator this system of “delayed implantation” may exist to give the female time to rear her current litter before giving birth to still more predators in the same area.
Fisher can be relatively easy to trap, as the majority show no fear of traps, human scent, or anything else. Due to their keen sense of smell, if they travel anywhere near a baited set, they will find it. To draw them in from a distance, skunk essence is excellent as a “call” lure, as are beaver castors, fox gland scent and mink musk. Favorites meat baits to use while trapping fisher are venison, beaver, beef liver and dead hens.
A countless of myths and half-truths surround the fisher. Some believe the fisher to be the most savage creature in the woods, an animal that leaps from the trees to kill all manner of prey. The Woodland Indians ate the fisher’s heart in order to gain courage, and many who hear this story have a tendency to embellish it a bit.
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