Robert Torricelli: “I believe we have defined the issue appropriately and at length. That ultimately is where we now differ. The technology…”

“I believe we have defined the issue appropriately and at length. That ultimately is where we now differ. The technology of trapping has clearly moved. Eighty-five percent of those who are trapping in the country are not using these traps. The largest States in the Nation have now banned these traps, as have other nations. What remain are those few on Federal wildlife refuge lands who continue to use these two traps identified as inhumane who would admittedly, as Senator Stevens suggested, for purposes where they are in the cash business of killing the animal and getting the fur, have to change to use other traps. If they are eating the food, they can use the same trap. If it is against predators, they can use the same trap. If they are in management for wildlife species, they can use the same trap. If they are going to sell the fur and they are in the business of making money by doing so, they are going to have to move to a more humane trap. That is as narrow as I know how to write this. That is the issue. That is our difference. I commend it to the Senate. I yield the floor.”