What constitutes black market fur? Protected critters? Pelts from countries with little/no regulations? If so, how does/did that affect the fur market? I think there would not be enough those type pelts to affect the North American fur market.

How does NAFA know how anybody is trapping, dispatching, skinning their fur?

They don't.

Only potententials for black market stuff for NAFA would be pre/post season pelts or pelts from protected animals in certain states being tagged as those from legal states

Nafa is only one part of C+T.It is industry wide.The pelts in a fur coat can be traced all the way thru the pipeline to the country of origin.And the countries like china that have no standards are not certified.And countries like US, Can,EU and Russia which adhere to regulatory standards can be certified.
Same applies to the ranch fur.Ranch fur that comes from countries with industry standards can be certified.
Once fur in a garment can be traceable all the way thru the entire pipeline from producer to end product to country of origin then it can be certified.Furs from countries that don't meet the regulatory standards will not be certified.
Like was said it is all about marketing a product in the way demanded by the modern consumer.
This is why hundreds of industries have C+T assurances.

Boco, ever hear the saying...Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me?
You've been fooled twice.

Never been fooled.
Look at the solid foundation trapping is on in Canada compared to your country,with all the fur bans etc.
I can see who the "fools" are.

They don't, it is just a technicality, some paperwork, it is a good idea though for business

Fur prices in Canada for what I can see has been under production costs for some time now. With the exception of northwest coyotes. I hope they stay high for you guys.

The way I harvest my fur would be illegal in Canada, but it meets the same certification standards as theirs. That would be" No Standard".

You are clueless about C+T if you think it has anything to do with different trapping laws in different jurisdictions.

You said they are certifying fur to industry standards. What are the standards?

. If you lie to yourself long enough you start to believe it I suppose
When close to 100 percent of beaver harvested these days are hatters profitability is laughable

Read it.

NAFA’s Ethical Sourcing program was developed to give our loyal customers the confidence that NAFA Certified™ furs are sourced from responsibly managed, and sustainable populations of ranched and wild fur. NAFA has made a commitment to offer both ranched and wild certified furs by the year 2020.

NAFA advises all of our consignors to get certified as soon as possible to be prepared for 2020 when NAFA will begin selling Certified fur.

.........That's all I garnered reading from their webpage. So how do I go about getting certified?

"Wild fur, because of the myriad of international laws, federal, state and provincial rules in place is already certified. Third party oversight already exists and all wild fur sold through the auction is certified." Fur Harvester's explanation.

certify:

officially recognize (someone or something) as possessing certain qualifications or meeting certain standards.

Was their some doubt that trapping was occurring unregulated? Is it the 1800's?

No,but it had to be traceable thru the pipeline,not just at the auction house.

ethics:

moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.

Boco - I would like you to explain how "traceable" would work in the following situation.

Person A traps coyotes in the State of Oregon. He has an Oregon Trapping license. He and 3 of his buddies all Trap in the same area, put up their fur together and sell it as a group. The split the selling price based on how many coyotes each person has in the group.

They sell their coyotes at the OTC sale in Prineville. I am a licensed fur buyer in the State of Oregon. I attend this fur sale and buy the group of coyotes those 4 guys sell. I also buy several other groups of coyotes from various other Trappers. When I get those coyotes back to Idaho, I add them to the coyotes I have bought at other sales.

I am now ready to ship my batch of coyotes to NAFA. I have no idea which coyotes came from which sale and which Trapper. How in the ..... is NAFA supposed to trace each pelt. I can't imagine the paper trail that would be necessary to follow each specific coyote pelt from the time it is trapped until it is graded at NAFA. That would be a bigger nightmare than CITES tags on bobcats.

So, please explain in detail how NAFA is going to "trace" a specific pelt in the shipmentni send them.

He also said how it was "skinned"...…… good grief how could they do that?..... traceable to the point of how they were skinned.