If top is twenty average will be low teens maybe. I’ll be out after them. Don’t have that many seasons left and can’t wait for “someday” if I’m going to trap. Relaxing for me to put up beaver instead of watching the news at night.

$20 per beaver is not enough for me to skin them. And I am getting paid to remove them, so all the $20 would be for is the skinning and boarding. Now if I were not getting paid to catch and remove them, that $20 would about cover the expenses to just catch them and get them home in my region. That would be breaking even on the catching them, leaving no money for my time to catch them and then there is skinning and….Oh never mind the details. I’m tossing them in the pit at $20. If the folks who need the fur cant pay a decent wage, they can go catch their own or do without.
I am not complaining so much as stating the economics as I see them in my situation. I am not bashing Groeny, more saying that if they want beaver for their hats, they need to pay the people who produce that beaver a reasonable wage. $20 barely covers out of pocket cost in this region at current gas prices, if it does cover it.

Come up with a $20 rat and we’ll have something. It is what it is.....

It’s America and do what you want but one question. You are removing them you physically have them in your possession. Your getting paid already to “ cover your expenses “ your words At that point wouldn’t the 20 bucks be PROFIT? Your looking at it in reverse order! Now if you can’t process due to physical limitations I feel you . But just to toss them because they’re not 40 bucks and “ won’t cover your expenses “ isn’t true if you got paid to catch them . Not skinning at that point is wonton waste