The purpose of the Best Management Practices
for Trapping Program (BMPs) is to improve regulated trapping by
evaluating trapping devices and techniques used for the capture of
furbearers and educating those who use traps about the most humane,
safe, selective, efficient and practical devices. Traps are evaluated
using standards and protocols developed by the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Since the inception of
this program in 1997, over 600 trap types have been evaluated for 23
species of furbearers with a North American investment of some $40
million dollars.