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

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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