Search Tracker Outdoors Hunting Forum Partner Trapping Trapping is part of the fur industry which is an area of commerce that includes farming or trapping certain fur bearing animals and processing their skins for sale to manufacturers of fur garments and leather products. The finished furs or leather goods are marketed through retail outlets. The term fur refers to the skin of any animal that has hair, fleece, or fur fibers attached, either in a raw or processed state. Skins of fur bearing animals are also called pelts.
Trappers send pelts or peltries to local collecting stations or to dealers.
Theses dealers send them to receiving houses where they are prepared for auction. Unprime furs, caught earlier or later are labeled as seconds, thirds, or fourths. At fur auction houses the furs are bundled into groups according to color, size, quality, and source, and are sold to the highest bidders. Some furs are sold through brokerage firms. Fur dealers and manufacturers buy at the auctions or through brokers.