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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 240807" data-attributes="member: 605">You guys haven't seen anything yet. We have a lot of great ND Game and Fish personnel. And then we have a few agenda minded individuals. From the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Best Management practices resolutions:States, provinces, and territories without documented cases of CWD could implement a blanket import ban on harvested cervids inclusive of meat and antlers, from all areas, regardless of CWD status. This alternative would provide the greatest reduction in the risk of importation of CWD. However, its implementation has the greatest economic and political impacts to states/provinces impact to states/provinces, along with reduced hunter opportunity by restricting or eliminating non-resident hunting. While this is an option, it would likely is considered be viewed as the least acceptable alternative, given the consequences. A blanket import ban would simplify import regulation of carcasses for agencies and enforcement purposes. However, the regulation will be unpopular with the state’s hunting public who enjoy hunting in other states and particularly those hunters who hunt as nonresidents in non CWD areas. In addition, such restrictions would significantly impact states, provinces, and territories economically, due to direct economic losses from a decrease in non-resident license sales and indirect expenditures (e.g., hotels, fuel, and groceries)In addition, states and provinces should consider adopting the following regulations and policies: • Provide educational material (online videos) for hunters on how to field-dress and debone carcasses and prepare skull caps or taxidermy mounts to ensure they are in compliance with CWD regulations. • Require all meat be processed in the state where the animal was harvested, especially when hunting in CWD-enzootic states. Regulations may be required to ensure that local butchers do not process animals from out-of-state. • Ensure consistent enforcement of regulations with carcass seizures and penalties for violations. • Provide information about CWD-positive counties, state, provinces, and countries on wildlife agency websites that are updated regularly. • Provide web resources showing how and where a hunter can have their animal tested. • Provide a web resource that has a better user interface to display such as, Cervid carcass regulations by state - Michigan DNR where hunters can search by their destination state/province and their residence state /province to ensure they are in compliance.  o All states, provinces, and territories should provide a notification protocol for CWD positive animals harvested by a non-resident hunter. This would include direct notification to the state/provincial agency of a nonresident hunter and the hunter. This procedure allows for contact between the home state/provincial agency and the hunter to determine 1) if the carcass was legally imported and 2) if the carcass, parts, or game meat can be recovered for proper disposal by incineration or digestion.  • States and provinces positive for CWD should notify all non-resident hunters at time of license purchase or thereafter, that they likely are prohibited from importing carcass parts or entire carcasses to their home states and provinces. In some jurisdictions this may not be feasible.• State /province/territory could consider allowing importation of whole cervid carcasses, provided the carcass is accompanied by a ‘not detected’ CWD test. This may be difficult to implement, due to the turn-around time required for CWD testing.</blockquote>

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