Pond Boss Magazine is already on board under resources and links. The store is wide open, if anyone has anything they might want to advertise. This is a brand new site, a lot of it is under construction, but I see the interest picking up, especially by word of mouth from owners I talk to. Who knows, I may hang my business there soon. And these laws will most assuredly affect out of state guys. I already got shot down trying to get shiners from Anderson's. I don't see how anyone out of state is going to get inspected by California. Just to get the new certificate. My local guys are just saying no and switching to 100% food fish. From what I understand they have to pay for each species to be planted, quarterly, and they can just about find anything wrong if they look hard enough. Asian Tapeworm is just about everywhere, because they brought in Grass Carp. Now they will use that to deny permits, a parasite they introduced. Unreal. Plus the language of the regs is so poorly written and so vague the guys I talk to are scared to death about having anyone come out and just shut them down. none of this would have happened if they had not lost that lawsuit. The real gotcha is any pond that empties into public waters. The other is certified disease and parasite free. I'm not sure there is a pond out there that could realistically meet that criteria, even though it does not list what it is anyway.
