Ask a CO: Fish sandwiches

[MeghanOOD]

https://oodmag.com/ask-a-co-fish-sandwiches/


A reader asks if prepared food (like tasty fish sandwiches packed for lunch) counts towards your daily possession limit.

[finsfurfeathers]

that can't be right. ya shore lunches count towards daily limit but tomorrows fish sandwich? How they supposed to check size limits on a fish salad?

[Fisherman]

Time for popcorn, beginning to sound like the secret service debacle. Suppose you used store bought salmon in a can to make your salmon salad sandwich? Do canned herring count towards your bait limit?

[trimmer21]

Could these regulations get any more ridiculous? Really? The next day lunch sandwiches can get you a humungous ticket? This interpretation is odd to say the least. I can just picture standing in court and telling the judge the guy was written up because he had a walleye sandwich for lunch. I can just hear the laughter now. Any CO laying such a charge and actually taking into court would likely find him/herself on beach poop patrol for the summer. I understand there's lots of it at Wasaga.

[werner.reiche]

The CO answering that has added a clause that is not in the regulations. From the regs:
"The possession limit is the number of fish you are allowed to have in your possession on hand, in cold storage, in transit or anywhere."
The clause "(this includes fish that have been prepared to be eaten, but not yet consumed)" is unenforceable.

I don't think a CO would write a possession limit ticket for a fish sandwich - or any other fish ready to be eaten. That's ridiculous in that a fish ready to be eaten would not have skin attached for species identification, numbers of fish or size of fish impossible to determine. If you did get a CO dumb enough to write the ticket - I think any court would throw it out.

[werner.reiche]

https://oodmag.com/ask-a-co-fish-sandwiches/


A reader asks if prepared food (like tasty fish sandwiches packed for lunch) counts towards your daily possession limit.

Ask a CO really dropped the ball on that one. I'd ask for a second opinion. He's making up stuff that isn't in the regs.

[finsfurfeathers]

Ask a CO really dropped the ball on that one. I'd ask for a second opinion. He's making up stuff that isn't in the regs.

Think here is the problem "Answer by: Brenda Koenig, Provincial Enforcement Specialist, MNR" Think the newbie made the wrong call here, where is the old guy?

[werner.reiche]

Think here is the problem "Answer by: Brenda Koenig, Provincial Enforcement Specialist, MNR" Think the newbie made the wrong call here, where is the old guy?

She's been with MNR for 18 years - 11 as a CO - so she's not really a newbie.

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

Next up they will take a stool sample and if they find fish DNA you will get a fine... lol

[finsfurfeathers]

She's been with MNR for 18 years - 11 as a CO - so she's not really a newbie.

well there goes that theory