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Topic: Game Wardens can't ID Fish?  (Read 2310 times)

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Humbletaxi

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  • Location: Cottonwood, CA
  • Date Registered: May 2013
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Lol this sounds exactly like a female game warden that I ran into years ago up here duck hunting.  :smt044


LuckyNed

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  • Location: Sacramento, CA
  • Date Registered: Jul 2013
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A couple of observations:
Wardens do not write the law/regulations. They are drafted in conjunction with biologists, than approved by the DFG Commission. One of the primary aspects they look at is "are they enforceable"?
What are the educational requirements for a CA DFG officer? In most states, you need a biology degree, preferably fish and wildlife, but they accept "equivalent combinations of education and experience". Parks and recreation degrees are pretty sketchy on biology, especially comparative anatomy and ichthyology but they are frequently accepted.
Item 2.  If these folks don't know what species of fish they are catching, why are they keeping them?
In the days when common sense and a desire to work carried you a long way in life, I had three uncles who made careers out of Federal Service (National Park Service, US Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management).
Getting them together was a case history in disagreement for anything but Federal Employment. The one thing they all agreed on was  working for the government requires three things--Education, Experience, and Who you know. The first two are optional.


 

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