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Stop allowing Americans to come over the border freely without launching on Canadian boat launches first. They come over multiple times a day everyday and take limits, this is a huge issue on Rainy Lake as well as LOTW. You cannot control limits as they take fish and are gone across the border with no enforcement, If they had to cross a land border you can setup checkpoints, but as of now there is nothing. Guide services/resorts from the states take guests into Canada and return with fish unregulated everyday. American citizens are free to come over daily and take a limit with no way to enforce a possession limit as I’m sure MNR officers are not allowed into the USA to search freezers. Rainy lake will be next if this rule is not reversed. How was this legal to begin with? Isn’t it illegal for a US company to profit from a Canadian resource without paying taxes? Fishing within a couple hundred feet of the borderline is marginal but being allowed to fish inside of Canadian water anywhere from an online license sale is a travesty which my children will suffer the consequences. This law sells a few extra fishing licenses on boreer towns but hurts local Canadian economies already hurting from lack of tourists, now they can just stay in the states and boat over at free will and take multiple limits per day. Please change this law, make American tourists cross a land crossing before fishing on our beautiful lakes. Our businesses and future of our fish population counts on it.
Submitted January 7, 2023 9:05 PM
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Lake of the Woods Draft Recreational Walleye Plan
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