And to add to the crazy….

DNR stocks non native rainbow and brown trout in a 9 mile stretch of the lower Saluda river below the Lake Murray dam.
50k fish each year. Paid for by tax dollars, with nary a public input.
For 22 years we paid to stock these invasive fish, in the spring, in known striped bass spawning grounds, and allowed the citizens of SC to harvest 5 fish per person per day.
A few years back, they decided that while it was still ok for us to keep 5 exotic fish per day, it was illegal for us to catch them and use them for live bait to catch a quality striper…
Fast forward another 5 years, due to some alleged invasive species breeding (despite the fact they are supposed to be stocked sterile due to rigorous testing at Walhalla) another law is passed deeming it illegal to keep exotic fish in a certain section of the river in the event that they may be sucessfully breeding.