Ah NY. Not getting political or putting down NY but I did an article for an aquaculture newsletter a few years back before the VHS hysteria sheet hit the fan. It was on trout importation regs for all the Great Lakes and bordering states.

At that time I tried very hard to get the skinny on NY health testing regs for trout importation and talked to more than one official in NY. There basically were none or shall we say -- no agreement.

After the VHS thing hit the fan the powers to be in NY changed things 180 degrees. In fact they went off the deep end. Now fish that are not susceptible to a disease have to be tested for it. You have to test LMB for whirling disease. Or if I remember right (but don't quote me) trout have to be tested for lmb virus. There were other things that don't make sense but I can't remember them at the top of my head. It was so ridiculous a Dr. Egre, of APHIS, called someone in NY and asked why they were requiring testing for diseases in fish that were not required. The response was an arrogant, "Because we can."

Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 07/28/12 10:00 PM.
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