County Gives $500 to Poacher Hotline
Ventura County supervisors have agreed to donate $500 to a statewide Fish and Game hotline aimed at catching wildlife poachers and polluters.
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously earlier this month to contribute the money to the Californians Turn In Poachers toll-free hotline, also known as CalTIP.
“The public up and down the state of California benefits from CalTIP,” said William F. Anderson, the Channel Islands Harbor manager who administers the Ventura County Fish and Game Commission. The commission recommended to the supervisors that they donate $500 to CalTIP, rather than the $2,000 that had been requested.
“To a lesser degree there are problems in urbanized counties like Ventura County,” Anderson said. “That’s why they approved a contribution less than what CalTIP asked for.”
More than 4,000 people called the CalTIP hotline in 1994, the latest year for which figures are available, officials said.
Anyone interested in reporting instances of poaching or pollution should call CalTIP at (800) 952-4000.
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