It's bad. They are scaring away most of the good guys that have supplied fish to pond owners for decades. Including members here. And what you will have left is places like proaqua that charge 400-500% above market value to pay for all of the hassles. Stocking a normal one acre pond with a decent bg/lmb population will go from around $1,000 to $4,000.
And a lot of private pond owners are not exactly enamored with the concept of CA F and G coming out to thier private property and telling them whether they can even stock thier own pond on thier own private property.
Another complete fiasco is the septic tanks and leach field disaster. The government is getting more and more intrusive on private property owners, stripping one right after another. It's getting to the point where your paid for private property is owned by you, but controlled by state lackies.
