“Bureaucrats have added insult to injury for a corn farmer south of Montreal whose fields have been damaged by near-record flooding. Martin Reid says he’s been forced to buy a fishing licence to remove carp that are swimming in a metre of water on his flooded-out fields.” [London, Ont., Free Press]
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what next? being charged with illegal use of water from public waterways for watering his crop?
He should just not bother, as fish are good fertilize. Just drain the field and plow them under.
This one I don’t have an answer for. There’s attempting to ensure that appropriate methods are used, and then there’s cases where some jobsworf in an office is ignoring everything but what’s written in the entry fields of the form.
Obtain the license, remove the fish, and then deposit them in the yards of the bureaucrats who required the license. And who now need one themselves to remove the fish, right?
“They’re not fish, they’re gilled cattle.”