05-15-2013, 12:06 PM
I hate to team up on you Paul, you get that enough. However, the illegal activities will happen without regard to what current regulations are. Those folks are basically hopeless anyway.
I agree with Ktrout, that the use of live minnows, only in the exact same body of water (we could say reservoirs only) where they were taken, would contribute nothing to the detriment of our fisheries.
Like crayfish, any that left the water body would have to be killed first.
The people that obey the law will have another way of catching their fish and the people that don't obey the law are still in the same boat. They have no added incentive to continue breaking the law in that situation.
Law abiding sportsmen have no added incentive to start breaking the law.
I don't get the logic at all. I realize that the state fears the potential threat, however that threat is already present, regardless of regulations, since those hold no significance to those that would transport the fish in the first place.
PBH is right when he states that the bad apple spoils the bushel. That bad apple is going to be bad no matter what, so it's best to just remove it instead of letting it affect all the other apples. That's where enforcement comes in. Yes, we could all do more to police our own.
I would LOVE to throw live minnows at Strawberry, if I could find them (and if it were legal, obviously). Currant Creek Res, 9 Mile, Pali
e, Huntington, Cleveland, and Electric Lake would also be good ones.
Really, I'm not arguing for the sake of it and would rather not, but the current regulations in regard to the use of live minnows do not mean anything to those that would transplant fish illegally in the first place.
It's ridiculous to assume that law abiding folks would stop following the rules if the rules enabled them to utilize a resource more effectively.
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I agree with Ktrout, that the use of live minnows, only in the exact same body of water (we could say reservoirs only) where they were taken, would contribute nothing to the detriment of our fisheries.
Like crayfish, any that left the water body would have to be killed first.
The people that obey the law will have another way of catching their fish and the people that don't obey the law are still in the same boat. They have no added incentive to continue breaking the law in that situation.
Law abiding sportsmen have no added incentive to start breaking the law.
I don't get the logic at all. I realize that the state fears the potential threat, however that threat is already present, regardless of regulations, since those hold no significance to those that would transport the fish in the first place.
PBH is right when he states that the bad apple spoils the bushel. That bad apple is going to be bad no matter what, so it's best to just remove it instead of letting it affect all the other apples. That's where enforcement comes in. Yes, we could all do more to police our own.
I would LOVE to throw live minnows at Strawberry, if I could find them (and if it were legal, obviously). Currant Creek Res, 9 Mile, Pali
e, Huntington, Cleveland, and Electric Lake would also be good ones.Really, I'm not arguing for the sake of it and would rather not, but the current regulations in regard to the use of live minnows do not mean anything to those that would transplant fish illegally in the first place.
It's ridiculous to assume that law abiding folks would stop following the rules if the rules enabled them to utilize a resource more effectively.
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