As an avid fishermen I am…

As an avid fishermen I am full aware of the invasive species issues but this minnow thing has me very confused. I feel like you are taking away my right to just trap a few minnows and go fishing. first the possession limit has been lowered so I cant trap a seasons worth of minnows to hold over the winter now it sounds like you want me to lay to waist minnows I now have to pay for by giving them an expiries date of two weeks? If I don't use them I have to simply kill them or let them die without a purpose? I think that adds a risk to people dumping them in the water to let them live because a receipt says they are expired?

how would I ask for two receipts because I bought extra minnows to meet up with a friend for a days fishing? He gets the coffee I grab the minnows we both need a receipt? Funny thing is I almost never get a receipt handed to me when I buy minnows Maybe its the suppliers you need to worry about. 99% give no recipes and I've seen some pretty strange looking minnows in a dip full when all I asked for was 3 dozen Dace minnows.

The whole dumping water into water is mind boggling to me as long as ducks and geese are allowed to fly from pond to stream to lake there will always be a risk of micro organisms spreading around . its common to add fresh water in the minnow bucket while fishing so say I am fishing lake X today, I can not take my minnows the next day to lake Y in fear I contaminate that lake with water from lake X .

Funny but my questions sound as strange as the new minnow proposal and I am not a lawyer or a law maker, could you make this new law more simple so a common man can understand and it seems to me like you are trying to compare or say that a fisherman is no different than a commercial minnow dealer with a trapping license when it comes to minnow distribution throughout any given area Me as an avid fisherman am not likely to go fishing 600 KLM away and worry about taking minnows from home with me when I can just buy a few dozen when I get there ,

We just do not need more laws what we need is more enforcement people to catch people breaking the many laws we already have there is already a law telling you NOT to dump you surplus minnows in the lake apparently its not easy to catch them doing that so you want to make a law that's much easier to inforce and that's show me your receipt for the minnows you now have to buy from a commercial seller or can I write my own recipe when I trap a couple dozen minnows?

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