Starting Friday the province will offer trappers twenty dollars a pelt in a province-wide effort to cull aggressive animals from the regional population.
However, one biologist and conservationist says these measures won't work.
Dr. Bill Freedman, a professor at Dalhousie University tells says the plan is merely a political ploy.
"A bounty, in my view, is mostly a political action that's undertaken my management agencies in order to be seen to be doing something about a problem. And in this case coyotes that some people feel threatened by," says Freedman.
Freedman says coyotes will mate more rapidly when their population is threatened.
He says, there should instead be a targeted effort to kill the problem animals in the pack.
