06-25-2015, 10:02 PM
At a certain point laws like this and others only penalize the people with good intentions. The people who want to use craws for live bait will do it regardless of the law. They simply do not care. You can't make them. It is impossible. It is a miracle these people can tie their own shoes let alone follow rules or understand the reasons behind them.
I am all for spending money and resources on educating the people who are capable of learning and understanding the reasoning and intent of the law. That is the best we can do, educate. But at the end of the day some people are beyond our grasp in that regard. No matter how much you try, or how strict the fines and penalties are, you cannot stop the idiots from being idiots.
People should be able to keep crawfish alive and transport them alive to their homes for consumption. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that practice. It does not hurt anyone.
It should be illegal to use live crawfish as bait, that came from a different body of water. It should be illegal to let them go anywhere but where you got them from. Those things do/could cause harm to the rest of us.
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I am all for spending money and resources on educating the people who are capable of learning and understanding the reasoning and intent of the law. That is the best we can do, educate. But at the end of the day some people are beyond our grasp in that regard. No matter how much you try, or how strict the fines and penalties are, you cannot stop the idiots from being idiots.
People should be able to keep crawfish alive and transport them alive to their homes for consumption. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that practice. It does not hurt anyone.
It should be illegal to use live crawfish as bait, that came from a different body of water. It should be illegal to let them go anywhere but where you got them from. Those things do/could cause harm to the rest of us.
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