Well as a retailer of bait I…

Well as a retailer of bait I DONT like this it all. (1) it will be harder to get bait and we already have issues with this at certain times of the year and the trappers who are out side of the proposed zones will on longer be able to make a good living supplying all us retailers bait.. , (2) anglers who do purchase enough bait to go out fishing for a couple weeks up to graham or buy pounds of leeches should not have to discard any bait after a expiration date. We stamp the back of our business cards aswell with the date and how many doz were purchased for americans so ii guess we will do the same for everyone now? if you buy bait today and have a receipt and you end up not going fishing until two weeks from now why should you have to toss it? it doesn't make any difference for invasive species. our trappers check there delivery over before they deliver for any invasive species, we then again check it at the shop on delivery. and we check are tanks over and over again because the last thing we would want is MNR coming in and finding something that should not be in there. if bait comes from outside of the zone and is followed with proper delivery and inspection by our shops there is no reason to make it harder for bait shops & anglers, The trappers who have been doing this for years for a living will be affected the most by this from the get go and the bait shops will feel the ripple effect next and so on. So trappers will be out of work and bait retail shops will close our bread and butter business will be gone and more people out of work. Northern ontario is different from other provinces when it comes to bait harvesting

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