You may have seen this, but?

That is a fantastic haul. I will let you in on a little secret, He does not process his own fur. He has some one else Skin, Flesh, Stretch and then turn the fur, fur side out so that they can be sold. There are many trappers who trap a lot of fur and the guys that get those kind of numbers hire people to do the hard part of the business.
Now if he had several hundred muskrat, yeah that could be a 1 man operation, as it takes less than 2 minutes to skin out a muskrat, put in on a board and flesh and stretch it.

Quote from further down the original article appears to directly contradict that thought, (emphasis added):

"Pennsylvania’s Phil Brown might be the best fox trapper of all time. From November through January, no matter how cold, wet, muddy or miserable it is, Brown is out there laying down the steel.
“Come fall some guys live for deer hunting,” says Brown. “I trap.”

Last season Brown logged a daily average of 190 miles in his Toyota pickup. He walked untold miles to make 9,247 sets and caught 1,202 red foxes—888 of which he dried and stretched himself.
On his best day on the line, Brown caught 30 foxes in 90 sets. (He owns more than 5,000 traps, mostly Victor #2s and Montgomery #1s.)
Almost all his foxes are caught in a simple dirt-hole set; he never uses bait, only Carmen-brand lures.

Last year marked the third time Brown, 47, put up more than 1,000 red foxes in a season—boosting his lifetime total to roughly 13,000. With prime red fox pelts fetching $15 to $21, Brown could gross as much as $25,000 from last season’s haul.—story written by Bob Butz"
 
Not to stir the pot or get into a hunting debate with anyone, but are foxes considered a nuisance or varmint? You don't eat them, correct?
Are they over populated?

And do people trap animals instead of shooting them specifically to not damage the furs?
 
We used to skin them, roll them up in a plastic bag and freeze them. Then thaw them out the night before the Canadian fur buyer was coming to town. $45.00-$65.00 for a prime red fox in 1978.
 
Not to stir the pot or get into a hunting debate with anyone, but are foxes considered a nuisance or varmint? You don't eat them, correct?
Are they over populated?

And do people trap animals instead of shooting them specifically to not damage the furs?
Fur bearers are an all natural, renewable resource. Managing a sustainable harvest ensures the continuation of that resource. Animals don't have to be food exclusively for human consumption, to be valuable.
 
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