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The following note is a report published by the newspaper The Nation on October 15, 1965

"No I'm not the best "complains Eduardo Flores, 75,

since 1910 in the river otter hunting," no one can say that. "

Sometimes a weapon traps with care and not catch any, and maybe another, that well-placed gestures with his hands messy, grab a bunch. You never know, he reflects.

Eduardo Flores lives on the coast of Paraná, near San Pedro. It is one of hundreds of inhabitants of the coastal area and islands for the hunting of otters and otter is the main source of income. Some supplement it with odd jobs or working in the fruit harvest. Eduardo Flores trudges, "so long in the river is felt in the bones." For that reason prefer not to talk about the current status of otter hunting. But guides us: "There lived a Thomas Flores - no gesture indicates that it is his son he knows much of otters and can take you to see the traps."

found Thomas with a brother, Olegario, hunter of otters and "municipal employee", wait for another brother, Ramon, also nutriero.

apologize for being unable to see the traps, the "tufted"

-tangle, "does not miss the boat. But in a relaxed dialogue shelled details of his work and his life.

Olegario, more determined, said: "The locals believe that we put bait in the traps," he laughs. "But no, otters eat weeds. We set traps in the water, about nest where there is a trail, going swimming are trapped. "

"After we kill a stick in the neck", he sticks a toallazo a hen chicks that bites others and continues, "the river otter

and it's hard to fall," said Olegario. "But it is so hard leather trap although grasping what the point of a leg and can not escape. And then it starts to go round and round until she died of rabies. After getting the leather you have to pull the meat tastes like soap, no one eats it, "says Oleg. "Even the tested pigs or owls," says Thomas. "But Mom likes me boiled, "said his plump wife. "Aha" recognizes the husband.

Otters Trap comes the other brother, Ramon, of the fifteen traps achieved only otter girl.

asked that if hunting is forbidden to do so during the breeding season in spring and summer. Answer logically. "Almost all of the people of the coast live only for this, and if no game has nothing to do. And they give a compelling argument. "Just to watch that does not hunt at all this needs a lot of police." Look at the immensity of Paraná

and its islands, and smile with a mixture of mischief and pride of connoisseurs.

Economically note that otter skin is payable up to 750 pesos and the river otter to $ 5800. The collected every day, house by house, a gatherer. "A lot of money, but lives on a ranch down. Dress like a bum, Tom is horrified. Follow Olegario "It's so greedy that a bottle of oil lasts

one and a half. I really
weeklong "puffs with pride. "And to me four days," he retorts brother seriously.

The brothers acknowledge that trapped between a hundred and two otters per year each.

"You do not gain much, but when animals are cute," summarizes Olegario.