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The revenue is too sweet. Governments do not have the self control to pass up. If not initially there will eventually be a pay to play option for the wealthy.

The revenue is too sweet. Governments do not have the self control to pass up. If not initially there will eventually be a pay to play option for the wealthy. There will eventually be a funding squeeze and some administrator will get the bright idea to open up a pay to play system. Where I live you can't take your own canoe/kayak on the state reservoirs because "invasive species" but you can take your motorboat (way more likely to transmit invasive species than a canoe) if you jump through all the regulatory hoops and then buy some special permits. The state will rent you a canoe for $20 though.

gamblor956 7y ago
This is false if you're referring to CA. You can't take a water vessel, motorized or not, into reservoirs or lakes unless it's been washed/cleaned and inspected to be free of invasive and highly destructive clagga mussel. Motorized boats tend to be cleaner than personal craft because most docks and marinas have dedicated facilities or equipment set aside for cleaning larger vessels.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago
  I'm not talking about CA. I'm talking about a state where every body of water over a certain size has to have a public boat ramp and the vast majority of them have no facilities. This is not the yacht club with their complimentary hose for washing off your boat we're talking about. Human powered watercraft do not have inaccessible bilges and cooling systems to harbor invasive species making them much less of a risk of bringing new species with them to a particular body of water.
  - gamblor956 7y ago
    There's this thing called chlorine that's been around for a few decades, at least, which owners of motorized vessels can use to clean out inaccessible locations like bilge pumps and cooling systems. It's actually more likely for personal watercraft to carry invasive species because they're less likely to be cleaned (even though they're easier to clean). Inspections for invasive species have been a major issue for at least a decade, because nobody wants to repeat what happened in the Great Lakes, where invasive species nearly destroyed the lake ecology and its many fisheries.

gamblor956 7y ago

This is false if you're referring to CA. You can't take a water vessel, motorized or not, into reservoirs or lakes unless it's been washed/cleaned and inspected to be free of invasive and highly destructive clagga mussel. Motorized boats tend to be cleaner than personal craft because most docks and marinas have dedicated facilities or equipment set aside for cleaning larger vessels.

dsfyu404ed 7y ago
I'm not talking about CA. I'm talking about a state where every body of water over a certain size has to have a public boat ramp and the vast majority of them have no facilities. This is not the yacht club with their complimentary hose for washing off your boat we're talking about. Human powered watercraft do not have inaccessible bilges and cooling systems to harbor invasive species making them much less of a risk of bringing new species with them to a particular body of water.
- gamblor956 7y ago
  There's this thing called chlorine that's been around for a few decades, at least, which owners of motorized vessels can use to clean out inaccessible locations like bilge pumps and cooling systems. It's actually more likely for personal watercraft to carry invasive species because they're less likely to be cleaned (even though they're easier to clean). Inspections for invasive species have been a major issue for at least a decade, because nobody wants to repeat what happened in the Great Lakes, where invasive species nearly destroyed the lake ecology and its many fisheries.