Jon Anderson wrote:

> Individuals who do not possess a federal salvage permit are
> not permitted to salvage migratory birds or their "parts",
> let along take (hunt, shoot, kill them with a car on I-5, or
> drown them in a gill net) a migratory bird.
>

Let me get this straight. I can go out with a monfilament gill net and
incidentally catch as many petrels, murres and albatrosses as I like. Or go
out with a shotgun and kill and (more likely) maim lots of wildfowl. But pick
up a feather and I can get busted !!!

Surely something wrong here ?


Stuart (only half in jest)