The Animal Welfare movement is affecting the way the fur rapping industry does its business. Paula Dobbyn (DAH-bin) of member station -T-O-O in Juneau reports on the Alaska Fish and Game Department's reaction to he newly approved ban on steel, leg-hold animal traps. In an effort to save the rapping industry in Alaska, department officials are holding seminars to ducate fur trappers in alternative snare methods, emphasizing the importance of ur trapping to the local economy.
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