As usual Bob is spot on. We have the same situation up here in the Great lakes states with the VHS virus where politics trumps good science. The government seems good at knee jerk reactions that cost lots of money or cost someone else lots of money when thinking things out w/o political pressure would have been a better approach.
I don't sell some frozen dead species of gamefish to taxidermists in Texas because of a law a former governor signed into existence. Texas has a list of "Commercially Protected Finfish" which includes largemouth bass, smallmouth, hybrid striped bass, black crappie, and walleye. If I sell any of these species the buyer has to buy a Texas Finfish Import License for $75.00 and I have to purchase a Texas Retail Fish Dealer License for $70.00. To me this is nothing more than trade protectionism as there is no reason to worry about the sale of privately raised dead frozen fish from another state. (The prices are probably higher now as this was a few years ago.)
For those of you in the know, especially Bob, will the rotenone kill every last Tilapia? Every rotenone kill I've witnessed up here the intended species for extirpation eventually comes back (in our case common carp) and the kill itself runs in to the thousands of dollars.
Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 05/11/09 09:31 PM.
