Anglers pushing their limits

[Mark Christianson]

Fine. I am not playing any race card, but if you are gonna fish/hunt in this state, you better darn well be able to read/comprehend/understand the regulations.

How do you get a license if you cannot understand the regulations?

Is that playing a race card? No. It just makes common sense.
My best friend worked for the DNR for years, and ran into non-english speaking people on many occasions that were breaking laws. He is not in enforcement, so he could not do much except report it and hope that enforcement could find these individuals before they were gone.

And of course we have lots of people that can read/understand our regs, and just choose to be jerks as well.
But, I still don't understand how we hand out licenses to people that cannot comprehend our rule books.

[This message has been edited by biglakeba$$ (edited 06-09-2004).]

[Northlander]

How about much stiffer penalty's and their name and picture in the Regs booklet for the next year? Wouldnt that suck to have people recognize you from your pic in the regs and know your a poacher?
Also these people should lose their license for 10 years the 1st time and life the second!

[Guest]

B-Lake Bass,

MN DNR hands out licenses with no control of whom they go to, mostly due to automated systems.

All we have to do is hand over a MN DL or ID card and answer a couple of questions and we get the license.

Imagine how everyone would complain if they had to actually take a written or oral exam AFTER taking hours of classroom education on ethics and laws--this is how it's done in English-speaking Europe, I'm not sure about other countries, e.g. New Zealand, Sweden.

Our country has, by our own politics, become so liberal with freedom and its resources that naturally we are experiencing the down-side of all this freedom.

Everyone wants to come here and live freely, but they don't want to live responsibly...

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Chells

[Mark Christianson]

Yeah. I hear ya Chells.

Easier said than done.

Just a frustrating thing. Oh well, lead by example to as many as possible, and hopefully we can all make a small positive impact somewhere along the line.