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Are you an Agent whose job it is to check for violations? If not your tampering with other people's property could be construed as attempted theft, no? You had to pull each of those six lines and examine every foot of them to know that they are unlabeled. The conservation number on a copper tag is not going to be visible from a passing boat.

That is what I thought when reading other comments. Pulling or cutting someone's line is simple theft.

Ah, well, I won't be there next time either then.

If I had known of this a few days ago, I would have been there, likely with one or both my sons. How often does this happen and how does one find out about it?

Serious money, maybe, but it's not real money. Nixon put us on imaginary money before he resigned.

With a debt of over $30,809,000,000,000 the government is beyond "broke".

the whitefish would have an adipose fin like other salmonids

Actually this is the first case I've ever heard of DNA involved. But then I don't pay much attention to records. And if the fish hybridize naturally, are they really hybrids or just the same species with odd colors? like the gray squirrels that are all black or all white

The $$ would have gone to the University that did the DNA. They are the ones that changed their story.

Daughter lives on Grand Lake and any given night you can see boats moving and stopped with no visible lights, I've wondered for years why there was no enforcement. Aren't the nav lights a Federal regulation?

It's suction, roof damage is almost always on the lee side of the structure. Wind blowing the roof cover against the structure doesn't cause any lift that would cause it to fly away, but the vacuum/suction created under the wind as it passes over the ridge is all lift. If you study boat sails or airplane wings they all work on the suction not the push. a sail boat is pulled by the wind not pushed by it.

They want the carcass and pelt, read the code. 3 CSR 10-4.130 (6)

Reckon climate change is what got them woolly elephants that used live in Mo. or were they just over hunted and taken out of season by poachers and giggers?

The Code gives permission, call after fact within 24 hours and you are good to go. (6) Mountain lions may be killed without prior permission if they are attacking or killing livestock or domestic animals, or if they are threatening human safety.

maybe not but they eat road kill or any meat left in my carcass pile when I was trapping. I've seen them take baby squirrels from the nest and catch trout at RRSP. They seem to have no dietary rules, so maybe they do eat rabbits?

I've lost hens to owls, hawks, possums, coons, bobcats, coyotes and fox. Birds have to away from the yard in daylight for coyote or bobcat, have to be in the open in daylight for hawks, and possums don't carry them off, but when chickens roost in trees owls will surely take them one at a time. Once had a momma coon bring her litter to the coop for instruction, and once had a red fox take two or three a day until I secured the pen better, guess she was feeding cubs.

An old time pro trapper like yourself knows cat tracks from raccoon scat. You also know to close the coop at night.

Is she a redhead?

If you have neighbors and three birds disappear on the same night, sort through the neighbor's trash for feathers and feet.

3 CSR 10-4.130 Owner May Protect Property; Public Safety (1) Subject to federal regulations governing the protection of property from migratory birds, any wildlife except deer, turkey, black bears, mountain lions and any endangered species which beyond reasonable doubt is damaging property may be captured or killed by the owner of the property being damaged, or by his/her representative, at any time and without permit, but only by shooting or trapping except by written authorization of the director or, for avian control, of his/her designee. Wildlife may be so controlled only on the owner’s property to prevent further damage. (6) Mountain lions may be killed without prior permission if they are attacking or killing livestock or domestic animals, or if they are threatening human safety. Any mountain lion killed under this rule must be reported immediately to an agent of the department and the intact mountain lion carcass, including pelt, must be surrendered to the agent within twenty-four (24) hours.

I read that Rome is still under construction.

Well, obviously no one has more than 60 fish in the freezer, but the freezer burn would exempt them as not something "commonly used as human food".

Whatcha hauling? I thought radar went through the air?

I've found dozens of deer (during seasons) over the years with just the back straps taken and have thought about the likelihood of an agent being there when the carcass was dumped and the difficulty or impossibility of tracing the criminal from the faint evidence to get a conviction. My conclusion is that regulation is more of a suggestion. Once that dead fish sinks, it's "where's the evidence?" With each agent covering an area as large as a small state (or a European country), my guess is they don't have much time for wanton waste.

https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/adrules/csr/current/3csr/3c10-4.pdf 3 CSR 10-4.110 (7) No person who takes or possesses any wildlife shall wantonly leave or abandon any portion of such wildlife commonly used as human food.