Stupid laws made by stupid people.

Thank Notley.. 

I'm not up this late drinking boys,, I'm working night shift lol.

This one has me worked up. Not that it will help with this communist regime but a letter I sent to Shannon Phillips our minister of parks and environment. It's her mug on the new regs so she got the letter.

In regards to the new regulation on the topic of un used bait. The new regulation prohibits anyone from discarding unused bait with in 50m of a water body. Did anyone think this one out or is this just an idiots answer to a problem.
 I can see where this is going as we don't want to introduce invasive species to a body water but think about this for a minute. When we take a tub of minnows or worms or leaches to a lake or stream to fish with them a good percentage of that bait stays in that body of water already. Either by falling off the hook and by the fish taking the bait off or knocking it off. I am a very avid angler I spend hundreds of hours a year fishing. On average on a decent day angling for walleye for instance I will use up 2-3 tubs of minnows a couple tubs of leaches and maybe one container of earth worms. That bait is in the lake, either in the form of food that a fish has eaten or it has fallen off the hook and will be picked up by fish. Regardless it's in the body of water it's part of the system. Now,, you are telling me that if I have a half tub of minnows left over that last half tub if I throw it in the lake those are the ones are an issue, those are the ones that are going to tip the balance of the lake. What about the times I catch my own minnows out of one of our lakes. Under the new regulations it's unlawful for us to throw those minnows back in the body of water they came out of. To further that issue according to the regulations when we catch our own bait we should only keep what we feel we will need and throw the rest back. Well under the new regulations it's unlawful to throw them back they are now bait.

If this isn't one of the dumbest un thought out foolish rules I have ever witnessed in my life I don't k know what is. If you people can't come up with more inventive ways to fine people and grab more cash just give up and leave it to people who can run it properly.

Yours truly,
Another pissed off Albertan.

Has anyone heard or read the background reasons for this law?  Other than another way for the man to stick it to the people who feed him.

What if I seine minnows out of the lake, use a bunch, and do not want to take the rest home.  Is it illegal for me to throw them back into the lake that they came from to feed the fish?  What a joke.  Politics and outdoor pursuits make piss poor bedfellows!!!!

It is a classic government move "If you can't do anything meaningful do more of something" cash grab.

No surprise but no reply what so ever from the ministers office lol.