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paeyes
01-19-2007, 11:35 AM
Anyone that is interested in an Ontario License for the upcoming tourny season can call Ontario MNR at 1-800-667-1940. They say it takes 5-6 weeks, but usually have it in a week or so. Just an FYI for everyone and anyone.
Kevin O'Malley
paeyes
01-19-2007, 11:35 AM
Anyone that is interested in an Ontario License for the upcoming tourny season can call Ontario MNR at 1-800-667-1940. They say it takes 5-6 weeks, but usually have it in a week or so. Just an FYI for everyone and anyone.
Kevin O'Malley
First we have to find out if we, ( the FLW Walleye Tour anglers), can fish the Canadian side of the Detroit River, due to the VHS virus and the problems it's causing. We might be stuck on the Michigan side of the river only. If that's the case, then there is no need to spend the moola on a Canadian Lic.
Thanks for the info though...that's very helpful. ;)
I'll dig into that and see if the FLW folks know anymore than before on this issue.
Juls
First we have to find out if we, ( the FLW Walleye Tour anglers), can fish the Canadian side of the Detroit River, due to the VHS virus and the problems it's causing. We might be stuck on the Michigan side of the river only. If that's the case, then there is no need to spend the moola on a Canadian Lic.
Thanks for the info though...that's very helpful. ;)
I'll dig into that and see if the FLW folks know anymore than before on this issue.
Juls
jerry unlogged
01-19-2007, 02:53 PM
VHS virus? What kind of diseases you folks in Ohio spreading now Juls????
jerry unlogged
01-19-2007, 02:53 PM
VHS virus? What kind of diseases you folks in Ohio spreading now Juls????
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/hot_issues/vhs/vhs.shtml
Where've you been Bro??? This is old news...and not good news at that!
http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/discuss/index.php?topic=748.0
(This one is the important one to read)
Juls
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/hot_issues/vhs/vhs.shtml
Where've you been Bro??? This is old news...and not good news at that!
http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/discuss/index.php?topic=748.0
(This one is the important one to read)
Juls
Mike K (unlogged)
01-19-2007, 06:16 PM
If you bring an infected fish home with you, it causes your VCR to blink:
"12:00 AM" "12:00AM" "12:00 AM"....
.....continuously!
Mike K (unlogged)
01-19-2007, 06:16 PM
If you bring an infected fish home with you, it causes your VCR to blink:
"12:00 AM" "12:00AM" "12:00 AM"....
.....continuously!
jerry unlogged
01-19-2007, 06:41 PM
Based on what Fred Snyder has in the question and answer thread, it looks like it's a done deal: the Canadian side is out. What is the FLW considering? Are they thinking about allowing us to go out on the lake again?
jerry unlogged
01-19-2007, 06:41 PM
Based on what Fred Snyder has in the question and answer thread, it looks like it's a done deal: the Canadian side is out. What is the FLW considering? Are they thinking about allowing us to go out on the lake again?
I don't think so, but I'm still trying to find out what's going to happen. I'll let you know when I know. ;)
Juls
I don't think so, but I'm still trying to find out what's going to happen. I'll let you know when I know. ;)
Juls
That explains a lot, and here I was blaming Rick for not being able to run the VCR! Doh! My bad. :banghead:
That explains a lot, and here I was blaming Rick for not being able to run the VCR! Doh! My bad. :banghead:
Jonathan Shoemaker
01-19-2007, 09:03 PM
I have interviewed countless people, on many different levels, for my newspapaer column about the VHS virus.
The fed's from the Dept. of Agriculture have down played the mandate for NO inter-state transportation saying that agreements between states may be made, for purposes of bait transportation etc...or to simpify.... as long as the source of the bait may be tested for VHS there should be no issues.
The fed's made this decision, thinking they were SAVING the lake, without even thinking of potential issues such as the tournament in Detroit. As a matter of fact the tournament is a non-factor to them.
In my opinion, I "doubt" that the FLW will be able to cut through beurocrtic tape that it might take to fish Canadian waters during the Detroit tourney. Just a guess with no internal knowledge. I hope I'm wrong, OR, I hope they let us on the big lake.
Jonathan Shoemaker
Jonathan Shoemaker
01-19-2007, 09:03 PM
I have interviewed countless people, on many different levels, for my newspapaer column about the VHS virus.
The fed's from the Dept. of Agriculture have down played the mandate for NO inter-state transportation saying that agreements between states may be made, for purposes of bait transportation etc...or to simpify.... as long as the source of the bait may be tested for VHS there should be no issues.
The fed's made this decision, thinking they were SAVING the lake, without even thinking of potential issues such as the tournament in Detroit. As a matter of fact the tournament is a non-factor to them.
In my opinion, I "doubt" that the FLW will be able to cut through beurocrtic tape that it might take to fish Canadian waters during the Detroit tourney. Just a guess with no internal knowledge. I hope I'm wrong, OR, I hope they let us on the big lake.
Jonathan Shoemaker
bob oh
01-19-2007, 09:56 PM
If you read the SeaGrant site you'll find that the VHS test runs about $200 and bait dealers won't be able to afford that??
rod bender bob
bob oh
01-19-2007, 09:56 PM
If you read the SeaGrant site you'll find that the VHS test runs about $200 and bait dealers won't be able to afford that??
rod bender bob
catchumbob
01-20-2007, 12:40 AM
The New York DEC tolds us at a meeting that their present regulations and the Federal Gov. regulations are for live fish transported into the U.S. from Ontario. This means that the fish in your live well have to be dead to bring them in across the Ontario border.
Bob.
catchumbob
01-20-2007, 12:40 AM
The New York DEC tolds us at a meeting that their present regulations and the Federal Gov. regulations are for live fish transported into the U.S. from Ontario. This means that the fish in your live well have to be dead to bring them in across the Ontario border.
Bob.
koenigsfeld
01-20-2007, 10:46 AM
I talked to Sonny last week about bringing fish back from Ontario waters. He stated that the regulations were only for fish that were to be sold, so would not affect tournament fishing. Juls or anyone else: if you have more or different info on this please correct me.
Jonathan Shoemaker
01-20-2007, 12:52 PM
"He stated that the regulations were only for fish that were to be sold, so would not affect tournament fishing."
Thanks for the tip, good to hear.
Jonathan Shoemaker
David Kraft
01-20-2007, 07:07 PM
I reviewed Juls site posting to the Ohio Seagrant people. It appears to me that they first posted that the new regs only applied to "commerical" fish. But, if I read correctly, they corrected themselves and said that the rules applied to all fish, not just fish caught for commercial or sale purposes. If I'm reading this right, and I may not be, then looks like we can not "import" fish from Canada into the U.S.
Let's see what happens
Dave Kraft
smart fish
01-20-2007, 09:21 PM
OK ... Let's think about this for a minute ... Detroit river, flowing water, some of the river is in Canada. Fish set's up homestead on back side of Grosse Island. His address is box deep-runner, Ontario, CAN. ... get real .. like that fish nows he is in Canada and he just came back from feeding at the power plant, on the U.S. side. Don't compute to me.
Cary_Ne
01-21-2007, 08:26 AM
So what the USDA is saying, is that the fish you catch in the river have to have their health records along with their passports to be brought to weigh in at Detroit?
Mike K. unlogged
01-22-2007, 07:49 AM
Yes - they need a minimum of two forms of ID unless they have NEXUS. I had my Aqau View down there last week and the lines to get back and forth under the river are amazing. They have set up special check points for the larger females since they believe they may be carrying illegals with them to the US side!!
I am all for saving the fisheries, but this one could take the cake. The fish in the Detroit River do not stay on one side or the other, they follow the current and the food. A fish caught in the AM on one side probably crossed the "border" six times in the previous twenty four hours.
Especially if he had his Green Card!
E Double
01-22-2007, 10:08 AM
Jerry, What good would it be to open up the lake? This law is not just for transportation across the CAN/AM border but any interstate movement as well. You could fish the MI waters of Lake Erie, but you couldn't go to OH. Hopefully what Sonny said is correct and this order only applies to commercial sales.
jerry unlogged
01-22-2007, 10:42 AM
I didn't see anything about interstate travel. If that is true then the lake wouldn't work. My bad!!
Nick(Ia)
01-24-2007, 10:15 AM
This presents all sorts of interesting scenarios for the enforcement of regs. Sooooo, ScoobyDo is on his annual spring meat trip to the river. Scooby buys an Ontario license with his Michigan license...Shaggy and Scooby head over and take a limit of Ontario eyes, kill'em-ice'em, and come back (directly by water-no customs) to the Michigan side of the river and do it again? With the inability to transport these fish alive, how will this play out with catch and possession limits...current enforcement is based upon the ability to transport live fish making combined possession the only way to enforce the law. Now that the limits would be argueably distinguishable?...I remember the Ontario/Minnesota program...probably not the outcome we want to see. Hope this all gets sorted out by April.