Re: NANFA-L-- Collecting Rules (was Seinerama)

Bob Culler (rangerbob-in-vwdial.net)
Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:24:36 -0400

Virginia's rules are pretty clear on nongame fish: http://
www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/regulations/nongame.asp

What little "collecting" I do is mostly in the Holston and Clinch R.
drainages just across the line from my home state of TN.

Bob Culler
Bob Culler
rangerbob-in-vwdial.net
Holston River Drainage
Kingsport, TN

On Jul 6, 2006,-in-1:25 PM, Gerald Pottern wrote:

> Sounds like we have an Ad-Hoc Committee on Native Fish
> Collecting Rules in the making. Yes NANFA could have
> some agency influence that our members alone do not
> (maybe with NFC as a co-sponsor). We need clarity to
> avoid being stopped by nervous inspectors trying to do
> their job, upholding ambiguous or conflicting laws,
> like what happened to Friedrich. Besides Arkansas
> (thanks Brian !) does any other state have rules
> designed for fishgeeks like us ? NC does not; just
> the typical "bait fish" regs.
> I'd be wary of using a species-based bag limit, since
> that places the species ID burden on the inspector,
> and we often take fish that are hard to ID.
>
> gerald, hangin on the Neuse
>
> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 13:46:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: matt ashton <ashtonmj2003-in-yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- seinerama 2/collecting
>
> 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.
> http://mail.yahoo.com
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