It has come to my attention that fisher are dying in New York and Pennsylvania from poisons being used by farmers and orchard owners to protect against mice, red back voles, and other vermin. Unfortunately some fisher are eating these critters and in turn being killed. My sources are very reliable, not just a rumor.

Fish and game here in NH ..want the lower jaw of fishers harvested for the last couple years...limit is way down to only 2

Fisher season is permanently closed in Virginia. That's my understanding anyway.

I would think more than just fisher are being poisoned; fox, owls, hawks, everything that preys on rodents.

I'm with nut.
Fox, coyote ....
Survey all farmers that use the poisons, See if any of them have any house or barn cats left.
And dead snakes layin' around.

Will be very lucky if anything changes, they'll sweep it under the table.

Al, it's going to be tough to slow that down, Look at the road salt problems around the Lake George area, For years they have peeached about stopping the use of salt on the roads, The only town that has enough money to buy that so called safe salt is The town of Bolton, Who knows what in that stuff . With as much salt that spread, It leaches to water wells & the Lakes.

Unfortunately poisons are cheaper than mouse & rat traps

Virginia is watching the numbers of Fisher sightings and as they keep going up they are looking to establish a season. It still be a few years down the road thay are looking for more sightings from southwest Virginia.

I doubt that stopping the use of the poisons will ever happen, they are too "convenient". Same thing with the salt put on the highways.Nobody wants to slow down. Just look at the brown foliage on the white pines from the salt spray along the Northway. My truck has 80,000 miles and the frame is rusted out from the salt.They know it is getting into the ground water, but do nothing about it.I wish they would go back to using salt free sand, but this is "progress".

I've used " one bite " rodent bars in my Chicken coop for 20 + years and have never lost a cat or seen a dead animal or snake around our farm.

i cant stand using poisons, i want to know at least what and how many critters i am killing.

Just another means to further regulate or close fisher seasons around the country. All the time I thought it was climate change that was the reason for fisher population decline ?

Maine did a fisher study in 2020 after fisher were found dead in New Hampshire. I donated I think 14 fisher carcasses to the Maine state furbearer biologist for testing. The study tested for a variety of different rodenticides and canine distemper. The study may still be ongoing, I’m not sure. Most of the fisher I donated had trace amounts of rodenticide and no distemper. The one I caught behind my house in Central Maine agricultural country had higher levels of rodenticide. If anyone wants more information Id be happy to share it with you. Maine’s furbearer biologist Shevenell Webb would be a good person to contact too as she ran the study from what I understand.

I grew up in Northern Wisconsin and worked for a Neighbor Dairy Farm. He never used Poisons. He just had Cats. They kept the rodents down.

In the past I have picked up dead animals witnin inches of those posion boxes that you see around everyones buildings, they are killing a bunch of different animals.

In the past I have picked up dead animals witnin inches of those posion boxes that you see around everyones buildings, they are killing a bunch of different animals.