Rule change heading to the Govenor

STATE OF MINNESOTA
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE

IN THE MATTER OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF
RULES RELATING TO
AQUATIC WILDLIFE
STATEMENT OF NEED AND REASONABLENESS

January 15, 2010

(I’m saving you from all the legal mumbo jumbo)

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Subpart 4. The proposed language clarifies that suckers over 12 inches that are legally purchased maybe transported alive with a current sales receipt. Currently, the law allows aquaculture businesses to sell to vendors suckers over 12 inches to be sold as bait (Minnesota Statutes, section 17.4982, subdivision. 18). However, the transportation rules (Minnesota Statutes, section 97C. 205, and Minnesota Rules, part 6262.0100, subpart 4) for a person requires these fish to be transported dead. The reason that anglers buy these larger suckers is primarily as a bait to attract larger northern pike and muskie. As such, it is preferred that these fish be alive. Suckers are not considered an undesirable species and do not significantly alter water chemistry and fish communities when present. This language is needed and reasonable to allow the live transport of these legally purchased fish.

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Aren’t suckers an invasive species? I heard that there was one born every minute.

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and with that it’s lights out at the House of BK!

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Aren’t suckers an invasive species? I heard that there was one born every minute.

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You talking minnows here or politicians?

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Aren’t suckers an invasive species? I heard that there was one born every minute.

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You talking minnows here or politicians?

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Politicians are an invasive self-replicating species. Studies by the University of Minnesota show that if you remove a politician, another one that acts, speaks, behaves, and votes in the same way replaces the original within a very short time frame. This has made control of this species quite difficult.

Researchers who have been on the forefront of studying this problem state the only way to remove the politician from it’s locale is to give it a high-priced tax payer-subsidized ‘conference’ in an ideal location such as the Bahamas where they can meet their mating partners. These mating partners are attorneys who fall under the title ‘lobbyist’. The lobbyists seem to follow the politician to whatever water they are currently located in. There is no known way to keep the species apart and to preventing them from breeding. Thus, the cycle of invasive politicians/lobbyists continues unmolested in waters both near and far. Studies continue as to how to halt the progress of theses two symbiotic invasive species.