Again, Laws and moral responsibility are 2 different things, this is why the VHS ban has threatened the lively hood of fish sales people in the great lakes states, and now threatens our hobby,
I sneak a VHS infected fish out of Illinois, to my tank in Oklahoma, where i also have a local fish i caught in my nice local fishin hole which floods yearly into my local river. I take it home Full well knowing it will get too big to keep to maturity, force it to live miserably for awhile in a tank too small for it. So when ive kept it so long, it is way to big for my tank, and its full of VHS, i lug it back to that same good ole fishin hole and toss it in.... because my local law says its OK ....What NOW. As for me i dont condone any of that.
Betcha 50 bucks that those VHS infected fish the us anglers in Illinois recieved from the cheesehead state will be in burns ditch this summer. Might even show up in the St. Joe if its not already there.
I am with you on this, its a very real issue.
as far as releasing into the waters it was taken from, that means off a hook and line.
Oh I am also an avid bowfisher, so you know I take care of my waters as much as I can, I give horse trough fulls of gar and carp away to folks who eat em.
Pm me some more info on your organization please.
Thread Author, I will upload tomorrow but I got some nice pics of the cats in my 9k gallon tanks at work, guy I work with lives about 8 miles up river from me got a nice 62# flathead the night before last, the thing is HUGE, also got pics of our fish collecting including channels, blues, flatheads, large and small mouth, some monster gills nice 'eyes and some very delectable looking perch.