Re: NANFA-L-- seinerama 2/collecting

matt ashton (ashtonmj2003-in-yahoo.com)
Wed, 5 Jul 2006 13:46:22 -0700 (PDT)

Now that is the kinda clarification I'm talking about! Better then the "Up to 500 baitfish can be kept" which is paraphrasing the Ohio regs and they loosely define baitfish using a combo of common and family level classification.

That is really what I think the future needs to be, where its going, and what NANFA should be lobbying for to ensure responsible native fish collection can continue. I would rather the organization be proactive than reactive to current and future collection and posession laws. The only other situation that causes a vauge regulation to be clarified is when something bad happens. Then it goes to the extreme end and we loose the resource all together. What about the notion rather than a fishing license, a native stamp, sort of like a trout stamp, or a 'naturalists' permit. Not as complex and inclusive as a scientific permit, which the general public usually cannot get, but like Casper's example from Brian Wagner, sets quantiative guidelines and clarifies the whole 'bait' mess up to properly manages non-game resources. The native stamp would be along the same lines, say purchase for a small fee, which hopefully a portion could go into natives conservation, that allows
collecting and possession. That could greatly benefit NANFA'ns who buy an out of state 3 day license-in-a HUGE fee when instead they could buy a native stamp.

Matt
Cookeville, TN

Prizma-in-aol.com wrote:
the best "collecting" laws i have heard of,
were helped and created by last year's convention host, brian wagner of
arkansas.
individuals are allowed to keep in their possesion or home aquaria 6 or so
individuals of each species of unlisted non-game fish.
that would make most folks content nationwide.

collecting is not what endangers fish populations. ( but i have heard of
extreme cases involving fish ichtheologists, extreme shocking and mass
poisonings, and over collecting by individuals in isolated habitats )
the main problem: it is siltation... a result of erosion, clear cutting,
development and bad farming practices which destroy a species ability to
reproduce.
my opinion... based upon listening and observing during my few short years
on this earth.
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