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Posted: Jan 09, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 9
A file photo of a rack of fox pelts on display in the Yellowknife offices of Francois Rossouw, a furbearer biologist with the N.W.T. Department of Environment and Natural Resources. (John Last/CBC)
Nathan Kogiak, a trapper based in Yellowknife, normally has promising returns for the furs he sells, but this year, he s had to rethink how he goes about selling them off.
The fur industry is seemingly off to a dismal start as the planned January Fur Harvesters Auction, based in North Bay, Ont., has been postponed to the spring due to COVID-19 restrictions.