Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This
Speaker 1: is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan cow Klaan. Here's Cow.
Speaker 1: A recent news story from the UK is enough to
Speaker 1: make any American patriots blood boil. The BBC headline reads,
Speaker 1: quote chip shops sell cheap catfish as traditional fish and
Speaker 1: chips cheap catfish. Our listeners, especially those from down south,
Speaker 1: might object, what the heck's wrong with catfish? Fried? Catfish
Speaker 1: done right is a meal fit for any king, even
Speaker 1: the old King of England. Well, this fight might not
Speaker 1: be about favorite fish, but more about economics over there.
Speaker 1: In England, cod has been the traditional fish species used
Speaker 1: for fish and chips, and like pretty much everything else,
Speaker 1: cod has gotten a lot more expensive recently. In December
Speaker 1: two twenty four, to a forty five pound box of
Speaker 1: cod cost UK restaurants one hundred and ten pounds or
Speaker 1: about one hundred and fifty bucks. Today, that same box
Speaker 1: costs three hundred and thirty pounds or four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars. Cash Strapped fish and chip shops have turned
Speaker 1: to catfish imported from Southeast Asia to reduce their costs.
Speaker 1: The problem comes when certain shops try to pass off
Speaker 1: the less expensive fish while charging the same price for it.
Speaker 1: ABBC Investigation DNA tested ten fish samples from restaurants in
Speaker 1: North England and found that three of them were selling
Speaker 1: catfish at the same price as cod and had it
Speaker 1: to their credit, though these shops weren't claiming to offer cod,
Speaker 1: but had instead labeled what they were selling as quote
Speaker 1: unquote whitefish, traditional fish, and chips and my favorite quote
Speaker 1: normal fish. Doesn't that make your mouth water? Hey, kids?
Speaker 1: Normal fish. Interestingly, the US went through a similar controversy
Speaker 1: back in the early two thousand, the so called catfish War,
Speaker 1: when American fish sellers accused Vietnamese suppliers of dumping low
Speaker 1: cost catfish into the domestic market and artificially depressing prices.
Speaker 1: US catfish farmers even organized a taste test through Mississippi
Speaker 1: State University to prove that American farmed fish tasted better
Speaker 1: than imports, but in a blow to national pride, the
Speaker 1: participants preferred the Vietnamese samples three to one. When I'm
Speaker 1: in the mood for catfish, I want the stuff that's
Speaker 1: been feeding from the bottom of a river instead of
Speaker 1: one feeding at the bottom of a tank. In that spirit,
Speaker 1: maybe you patriotic listeners who live nearby, you can pull
Speaker 1: in a few catfish from your trot lines, invite some
Speaker 1: friends over, and offer some fish and chips entirely free
Speaker 1: of charge. This week, we've got what's happening in your state,
Speaker 1: proof that in the duck hunting game you can always
Speaker 1: spend more and mule deer. But first, I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you about my week, and my week is really
Speaker 1: turkey oriented. Took a couple of days off and loaded
Speaker 1: up the lady and dogs for our annual turkey canamp out.
Speaker 1: This year was different in a handful of ways. Normally
Speaker 1: we've gotten a lot of turkey hunting in around the
Speaker 1: home state, if not other states. At this point this year,
Speaker 1: all my prior hunting amounted to about two hours on
Speaker 1: opening day. On top of that, and something not previously
Speaker 1: mentioned here on this podcast, I'm about to be a dad.
Speaker 1: The lady is ultra pregnant do any day now, but
Speaker 1: turkeys are probably the highest on the hunting list for her,
Speaker 1: and they happen to be a direct correlation between the
Speaker 1: amount of white meat we consume in a year to
Speaker 1: the amount of turkeys we kill in the sprint. Plus
Speaker 1: we use the entire bird from toenails to snood, minus
Speaker 1: the intestinal track. Pretty much, I've got quite the stock portfolio,
Speaker 1: if you know what I'm talking about. Gang Okay, everything
Speaker 1: goes in that pot. One could call it rough stock even.
Speaker 1: And the lastly in the string of differences, there is
Speaker 1: a brand new new spring turkey tag option on the
Speaker 1: state website. This one private land only, so we each
Speaker 1: grabbed one, as I have a hunting permission for turkeys
Speaker 1: in eastern Montana going on about twenty years now, so
Speaker 1: we were stoked to see that extra opportunity. We had
Speaker 1: a bad ass hunt. We found a few shed antlers,
Speaker 1: and the lady hiked her butt off in spite of
Speaker 1: her growing and already substantial gut. We made good food
Speaker 1: and had a gorgeous view and could hear gobbles from camp.
Speaker 1: We got two toms to come into the Dave Smith
Speaker 1: half strut jake and laying hen decoys, which until this
Speaker 1: point that half strut Jake I've tried many times and
Speaker 1: he's only worked to make birds wary or run away,
Speaker 1: so this event was very special. Toms came in and
Speaker 1: danced and beat up Jake, and then one split off
Speaker 1: and tried its best to copulate perform the old chloacle
Speaker 1: kiss with the breeding hen decoy. It was during this
Speaker 1: act that he stuck his neck out a little too
Speaker 1: far and the four ten went bang and Sam got
Speaker 1: herself a real nice tom. Great trip. Oh. I observed
Speaker 1: that timing wise whatever the turkey spurs were like in
Speaker 1: stages of molting, which was really interesting. I've never seen
Speaker 1: that this time of year before. And that tom that
Speaker 1: Sam killed was super heavy had one spur, so that
Speaker 1: was just oddball deal. I also observed a raven land
Speaker 1: in a really strange spot, which made me pick up
Speaker 1: the binoculars and stare at him, and I watched him
Speaker 1: waddle over and eventually fly away with a whole turkey egg.
Speaker 1: Add that to your list of nest predators. Like I said,
Speaker 1: great trip, But here's the rub. Those private land tags
Speaker 1: are only good in the fall. Now. During the online
Speaker 1: purchase process, it doesn't say spring or fall. It's just
Speaker 1: a tag option that's available in printed form or e
Speaker 1: tag form, of which we had both. It doesn't say
Speaker 1: spring or fall. But if you track that tag down
Speaker 1: in the Montana state regulations, which I obviously did not
Speaker 1: do ahead of time, it does say valid in the
Speaker 1: fall only, so as it happens, your gut doesn't like that.
Speaker 1: So I picked up the phone, called the game warden
Speaker 1: and self reported that we killed birds and put illegal
Speaker 1: tags on them. Fortunately I got a warranning, as did Sam.
Speaker 1: But I thought I should also self report here on
Speaker 1: the podcast because it was a really easy mistake to make,
Speaker 1: and I am sure there's a few other folks here
Speaker 1: in the home state who did what I did and said, wow,
Speaker 1: extra bird, that will really help justify the cost of
Speaker 1: diesel for turkey hunting out east this spring, which it
Speaker 1: still can, but only the fall. So always double check
Speaker 1: the rags and if it seems too good to be true,
Speaker 1: it is. Moving on to the New York State, a
Speaker 1: new bill is making its way through the state legislature
Speaker 1: that would expand access to deer management permits in the
Speaker 1: northern part of the state. Currently, New York law prohibits
Speaker 1: the Department of Environmental Conservation from issuing DMPs in the
Speaker 1: nine wildlife management units that make up most of Adirondack Park.
Speaker 1: These areas together are gigantic, nearly a quarter of the
Speaker 1: state's total land and about a half of all state
Speaker 1: owned public land. In principle, this limit on DMPs should
Speaker 1: be undone, just because state agencies should be in charge
Speaker 1: of all policy affecting wildlife. But up until recently, the
Speaker 1: restriction wasn't a big problem in this part of New
Speaker 1: York because deer populations were fairly low there. However, warmer
Speaker 1: temperatures caused by climate change have allowed deer to spread
Speaker 1: further north, and increased developed in this area has created
Speaker 1: more edge habitat where white tails do particularly well. That
Speaker 1: means that deer is starting to exceed the carrying capacity
Speaker 1: of the landscape. They've been hammering local vegetation and the
Speaker 1: other species that depend on it. New York DEEC should
Speaker 1: have deer management permits in their toolbox to increase the
Speaker 1: take of antler list deer to control population numbers. The
Speaker 1: good news is that a bill allowing just that recently
Speaker 1: passed the State Assembly, and the Senate version of the bill,
Speaker 1: S nine four six two is currently before the Senate
Speaker 1: and Environmental Conservation Committee. Empire Staters, this would be good
Speaker 1: for habitat and would increase your hunting opportunity, So contact
Speaker 1: your senators and ask them to push for S. Nine
Speaker 1: four six' two to come to a floor. Vote troubling
Speaker 1: news From, wisconsin where the State's Finance committee seems to
Speaker 1: be withholding authority from The department Of Natural resources to
Speaker 1: spend its, funds leading to the closure of fish hatcheries
Speaker 1: and large reductions in stocking of, muskies, walleye and. Pheasants
Speaker 1: as reported By Wisconsin Public, radio THE dnr was able
Speaker 1: to fill budget shortfalls last year with a thirty million
Speaker 1: dollar transfer from the state's forestry, account but THE dnr
Speaker 1: needs authorization from The republican Controlled Budget office to get
Speaker 1: that money out the, door and despite two letters FROM
Speaker 1: Dnr Secretary Carrie higham that authorization hasn't come through, already
Speaker 1: the consequences are being. Felt all in, all there will
Speaker 1: be five hundred thousand fewer fish stocked this, year including
Speaker 1: forty thousand fewer muskies and three hundred thousand fewer. Walleye
Speaker 1: even if the funds were opened up, today THE dnr
Speaker 1: has said that those cuts would still have to go into.
Speaker 1: Effect two fisheries in the northern part of the state
Speaker 1: are currently. Shuttered pheasant stocking will also decline by ten thousand,
Speaker 1: birds and other prospective cuts will go into effect if
Speaker 1: funding isn't available, soon including wildlife, monitoring forest, management wolf,
Speaker 1: TRACKING cwd, testing and maintenance of facilities open to the.
Speaker 1: Public the hold up might be strategy to impose fiscal
Speaker 1: responsibility on THE, dnr but an audit commissioned By republican
Speaker 1: members of the legislature last year found that the agency
Speaker 1: wasn't mismanaging. Funds the state's Fishing wildlife account has faced
Speaker 1: a deficit of sixteen million, dollars largely due to a
Speaker 1: decline in revenue from license, sales but the cost of
Speaker 1: those licenses hasn't meaningfully increased since two thousand and, five
Speaker 1: even though everything that THE dnr has to pay for
Speaker 1: has gone up by sixty nine point one percent over
Speaker 1: that same time, span according to the inflation calculator at
Speaker 1: THE Us bureau Of Labor. Statistics the number of licenses
Speaker 1: sold has also. Declined But i'm going to guess that closing,
Speaker 1: hatcheries not stocking, fish not maintaining, facilities and not managing
Speaker 1: habitat is going to cause an even more rapid decline
Speaker 1: in people buying. Licenses Governor Tony evers has proposed an
Speaker 1: increase in the cost of hunting and fishing licenses which
Speaker 1: The republican controlled legislature has. BLOCKED i can relate to
Speaker 1: wanting to keep the cost down for people to try
Speaker 1: to get out into the field and bring home some
Speaker 1: calories for themselves and their, Families but hamstringing the agency
Speaker 1: that lets people being able to do that seems pretty.
Speaker 1: Shortsighted raising license fees on one hand or getting creative
Speaker 1: with funding on the other is a tough decision to,
Speaker 1: make but we hire elected officials to make tough. Decisions
Speaker 1: simply standing in the way of everything and letting an
Speaker 1: agency starve makes no. Sense, badgers call up your state,
Speaker 1: senators especially if they're on The republican, team and ask
Speaker 1: them to free up these funds and get THE dnr
Speaker 1: movement again heading up north cross The canada. Line last,
Speaker 1: year we told you About Jeff, evely The canadian hiker
Speaker 1: who purposely Violated Nova scotia's ban on hikers entering the
Speaker 1: woods during a time of elevated wildfire. Risk evely was
Speaker 1: issued a violation and a fine of twenty eight Thousand canadian,
Speaker 1: dollars and that gave him legal standing to challenge the
Speaker 1: ban in. Court that challenge went all the way To
Speaker 1: Canada's Supreme Court, court and a couple weeks, ago The
Speaker 1: court ruled In evely's, favor declaring that the ban was.
Speaker 1: Unreasonable the court said that the ban didn't reasonably Consider
Speaker 1: section six of The Canadian charter Of rights And, freedoms
Speaker 1: which protects a citizen's ability to move freely within the.
Speaker 1: Country Justice Jamie campbell also ruled that issuing a ban
Speaker 1: on simply entering quote unquote the woods is too, broad
Speaker 1: exposing people to a possible violation because they don't know
Speaker 1: where some trees end and the woods. Began, however the
Speaker 1: court didn't officially strike down the ban because it was
Speaker 1: no longer in, effect and it didn't rule out the
Speaker 1: possibility of a similar ban in the, future as long
Speaker 1: as the rule took into account People's charter rights and
Speaker 1: was more specific about the area affected by an. Order
Speaker 1: Justice campbell wrote about a possible future ban quote with
Speaker 1: the benefit of, hindsight it might be something that could
Speaker 1: be considered before the next. Emergency considering the abysmal snowfall this,
Speaker 1: year the next fire emergency might already be on the.
Speaker 1: Horizon we'll see what restrictions go in to effect to
Speaker 1: limit the human causes of those fires north and south
Speaker 1: of the border as the year goes. On moving on To,
Speaker 1: wyoming where a couple of weeks ago we talked About
Speaker 1: wyoming's plans to extend the seasons And nick's antler requirements
Speaker 1: on its sublet And Wyoming range mule deer, herds and
Speaker 1: the controversy surrounding the. Decision quick recap wildlife managers said
Speaker 1: that the herds have recovered enough from recent that the
Speaker 1: restrictions are no longer necessary or even. Beneficial many, hunters,
Speaker 1: however were worried that the actions were too, much too.
Speaker 1: Soon while The Wyoming game And Fish commission met and
Speaker 1: at the behest of some hunters and outfitters largely Rejected
Speaker 1: Wyoming game And fish biologists, recommendations The, commission which is politically,
Speaker 1: appointed decided to extend the season only by two days
Speaker 1: instead of the proposed, four and to keep the antler
Speaker 1: restrictions in place. Indefinitely game And fish biologists seemed a
Speaker 1: bit miffed by the brew haha. Quote, frankly none of
Speaker 1: our season proposals affect population growth and management towards, recovery
Speaker 1: Said game And Fish Jackson Region Wildlife Coordinator Cheyenne. Stewart Brandon,
Speaker 1: skirlock the wildlife management coordinator For Wyoming game And Fish
Speaker 1: Departments Pinedale, region added that quote there's a false notion
Speaker 1: out there that antler point restrictions are going to create
Speaker 1: more big bucks on the. Landscape they're just. Not he
Speaker 1: went on to explain that concentrating harvest among older bucks
Speaker 1: can actually put the ratio of mature bucks in. Decline,
Speaker 1: additionally poaching and wasting deer tends to increase when folks
Speaker 1: unintentionally harvest bucks whose antlers aren't up to. Snuff not
Speaker 1: all hunters fought The game And fish, proposal And Jason,
Speaker 1: west the president Of Wyoming Mule Deer, alliance for, instance
Speaker 1: urged the committee to follow science based wildlife. Management that
Speaker 1: didn't sway the, commissioners, however though Even Ken, roberts a
Speaker 1: commissioner From kemerer and a big proponent of the, decision
Speaker 1: admitted that ignoring the recommendation of the agencies was quote a,
Speaker 1: tough tough, call and conceded that the science didn't support
Speaker 1: keeping the antler restrictions in. Place head over to our
Speaker 1: friends at One biofile for a nuanced breakdown in the.
Speaker 1: Story moving, on to the Pam, Handle, idaho where state
Speaker 1: legislators have been busying themselves updating some of the laws concerning.
Speaker 1: Hunting one of the biggest changes Was House built nine
Speaker 1: three to, nine which had to do with the use
Speaker 1: of technological aids for. Hunting in, short legislators outlawed the
Speaker 1: use of thermal, imaging night, vision and drones to scout
Speaker 1: and hunt big game and. Birds the bill also banned
Speaker 1: the use of cell cams on public lands during fall hunting.
Speaker 1: Seasons the moves were made with the interest of fair
Speaker 1: chase in mind and are consistent with many regulations elsewhere
Speaker 1: in The. West the final version of this bill included
Speaker 1: a couple of carve outs that were important to, hunters
Speaker 1: such as creating exceptions for predators like mountain lions and,
Speaker 1: wolves as well as for game, recovery, trapping and livestock.
Speaker 1: Protection good old fashioned trail cams were not affected. Either,
Speaker 1: obviously we have reported here that all of these means
Speaker 1: for the purposes of livestock protection always have been. Available
Speaker 1: there's another program out there for stock growers and their
Speaker 1: agents to where you. Can you can pretty much do
Speaker 1: what you want as long as you let the law
Speaker 1: know that you got a situation out there that needs
Speaker 1: to get. Handled as for allowing this stuff for game,
Speaker 1: recovery that's like taking your best game wardens out there
Speaker 1: and shooting them in one. Foot it's going to be
Speaker 1: real hard to say were you actively hunting or were
Speaker 1: you trying to recover? Game, now just a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks before A House bill nine three nine was signed into,
Speaker 1: law state legislators Passed House bill eight five to, five
Speaker 1: which increased the residency requirement for snagging a lifetime hunting
Speaker 1: license from six months to five. Years, apparently local hunters
Speaker 1: were worried about non residents moving there briefly to get residency,
Speaker 1: status purchasing a lifetime, license then returning to their home
Speaker 1: state while being able to apply For idaho resident tags
Speaker 1: for the rest of their. Days it's not clear how
Speaker 1: many folks were actually attempting this, gambit BUT i know
Speaker 1: of a. Few the five REQUIREMENT i will make it
Speaker 1: a lot harder for those folks who just want it
Speaker 1: so bad they're willing to do anything like maintain a
Speaker 1: po box in the state Of idaho while not really living.
Speaker 1: There it does. Happen moving on to The Waterfowl desk
Speaker 1: two collectible duck decoys recently sold for over one million
Speaker 1: dollars each and shattered records in the. Process the high
Speaker 1: dollar sales took place at A giet And deeter, auction
Speaker 1: which was selling pieces from The gym And Diane cook, collection,
Speaker 1: which according to the auction, house is akin to The
Speaker 1: Super bowl Or tour De france but for the sport
Speaker 1: of decoy. Collecting the deck that fetched the highest bid
Speaker 1: was a wood duck carved By massachusetts Man Joseph lincoln
Speaker 1: in the early nineteen hundreds and went for a whopping
Speaker 1: one point two six million. Dollars interestingly, enough the decoy
Speaker 1: was so valuable not just because of its impeccable, beauty
Speaker 1: but Because lincoln and other carvers of didn't carve many
Speaker 1: wood duck. Decoys there was a good reason for this
Speaker 1: at the, time the species was seriously struggling following the
Speaker 1: days of market, hunting and sport hunting for them was
Speaker 1: banned from nineteen toot to six through nineteen sixty. One
Speaker 1: the other decoy that fetched over a million dollars was
Speaker 1: a quote preening, wigeon which was carved by another Legendary
Speaker 1: massachusetts decoy carver from the same time, period A Elmer
Speaker 1: crowell His wigeon went for one point one four million.
Speaker 1: Dollars according To giet And, eeter both decoys topped the
Speaker 1: previous record for a collectible decoys sold ad, auction which
Speaker 1: was eight hundred and fifty six thousand, dollars and A
Speaker 1: merganza that was sold in two thousand and. Seven they
Speaker 1: are also the most expensive decoys ever, sold at least,
Speaker 1: publicly according to The Guinness Book World. Records the previous
Speaker 1: highs were A Preening Pintail drake And Sleeping Canada, goose
Speaker 1: both By, crowell that went for one point one three
Speaker 1: million apiece in a private deal back IN ot. Seven
Speaker 1: while these wooden decoys were made to be hunted, over
Speaker 1: they probably won't be anytime. Soon head over to our
Speaker 1: friends over at The split read for the full. Story
Speaker 1: those stories are, important, gang because we wouldn't be dealing
Speaker 1: with some of the conservation issues that we're dealing with
Speaker 1: right now if our memories were a little bit. Longer
Speaker 1: those folks who complain about shooting nothing but wood ducks
Speaker 1: and you're dying for a, mallard you're in the same
Speaker 1: zone where we had almost extirpated the wood, duck and
Speaker 1: they're pretty darn. Special as another fun of, reference a
Speaker 1: million dollars which these old the old boy decoy carvers
Speaker 1: carved way back in nineteen. Ten have they been able
Speaker 1: to sell a decoy in nineteen ten for a million?
Speaker 1: Dollars that would be the equivalent of thirty four point
Speaker 1: seven six million dollars in today's, dollars and thirty four
Speaker 1: million in nineteen ten would have been worth one point
Speaker 1: one eight billion billion. Dollars moving, on Dul michigan researchers
Speaker 1: are investigating quote unquote zombie lake trout that are turning
Speaker 1: up in surveys in the depths Of Lake. Superior the
Speaker 1: lakers are so emaciated That Sean, sittire the fisheries research
Speaker 1: by All just for The Michigan department Of Natural, resources
Speaker 1: said they look like they're suffering from. Famine many of
Speaker 1: them also have deformed, spines and as many as fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the surveyed catch in deep water exhibit the strange. Conditions,
Speaker 1: unfortunately scientists aren't exactly sure what's causing. It they're looking
Speaker 1: into everything from a lack of forage, items, disease the
Speaker 1: impact of sea lampreys and even contamination from. Toxins the
Speaker 1: worrying news comes just a couple of years after The
Speaker 1: Great Lakes Fishery commission had announced That Lake trout And
Speaker 1: Lake superior had. Recovered about sixty years, ago the native
Speaker 1: species was nearly wiped out from the lake by invasive,
Speaker 1: lampreys and it took decades for The lake trout population
Speaker 1: to bounce. Back let's hope that scientists figure out whatever's
Speaker 1: causing the zombie fish and it won't cause the population
Speaker 1: to drop. Again that's ALL i got for you this.
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