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Urban fisher sightings in Pennsylvania show success of reintroduction efforts 30 years ago

Pennsylvania began its five-year reintroduction program 30 years ago by releasing 190 fishers at five sites across the state’s Northern Tier. Now, the animals roam most of the state. (Stock photo)

A fisher caught on camera in a suburban community of Pittsburgh made local news in recent weeks, but perhaps shouldn’t have come as a great surprise.
Although the house-cat-size member of the weasel family disappeared in Pennsylvania about 100 years ago, the species is now rebounding both in numbers and distribution, given the success of reintroduction efforts in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York.
“I don’t think it’s that out of the ordinary that a fisher was found (in Murrysville),” said Pennsylvania Game Commission furbearer biologist Tom Keller of the image caught by a wildlife camera on private property.

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