Assessment of the efficiency in trapping North American mink (Neovison vison) for population control in Patagonia

Table 1 Main features and trapping results

Study site	Shore substratum	Vegetation	Distance covered (km)	Season/year	Trapping period (days)	Trap/night	Trapped mink
							Males	Females	Total
Magdalena Fiord (1)	Marine, rocky, steep	High	15	Summer 2009	10	280	7	4	11
Magdalena Fiord (2)			15	Summer 2010	15	373	2	0	2
Magdalena Fiord (3)			15	Summer 2011	7	124	2	1	3
Magdalena Fiord SE	Marine, stony, shallow	High	13	Summer 2009	10	114	6	2	8
Magdalena Fiord SW	Marine, stony, rocky, steep	High	6	Summer 2009	10	252	4	1	5
Magdalena Fiord NE		High	6	Summer 2009	11	232	3	1	4
Magdalena Fiord NW		High	8	Summer 2009	23	130	0	3	3
Cisnes River (1)	Large pool-riffle confined	Med-high	6	Spring 2010	17	251	7	0	7
Cisnes River (2)			6	Summer 2013	4	18	1	0	1
Cisnes River Estuary	Large pool-riffle unconfined	Medium	6	Summer 2010	6	45	2	0	2
Todos Los Santos Lake	Rocky, steep	Med-high	11	Spring 2010	12	165	5	1	6
Maullín River	Unconfined, pallustrine	Low-med	5	Autumn 2011	10	123	5	1	6
Queulat Fiord	Marine, rocky, steep	High	4	Summer 2013	11	83	5	2	7

Main results of ten study sites along the river, lake, and Aysén districts of South Chile, and trapping results. 1, 2, 3, correlative number of the consecutive visits.

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