Saskatchewan puts moratorium on wild boar farms, toughens regulations

The Saskatchewan authorities has put a moratorium connected caller chaotic boar farms aft decades of expanding feral swine populations.

The state besides says existing farms will require licensing and regular inspection.

Toby Tschetter, nan chair of Sask Pork, says nan regulations will thief nan manufacture respond to animal escapes and imaginable illness outbreaks.

Research from nan University of Saskatchewan says chaotic pigs — a operation of chaotic boar and home swine — became a problem successful nan 1990s, erstwhile galore escaped livestock farms and adapted to nan Prairies.

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The investigation says nan animals person grown their territory astatine a complaint of 9 per cent per twelvemonth successful Canada, threatening autochthonal species, specified arsenic nesting birds, deer, cultivation crops and workplace livestock.

It says nan pigs person besides adapted to frigid temperatures and tin breed successful immoderate season.