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Through the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, the Ontario government announced today that a cormorant hunting season has finally been approved and is scheduled to run from September 15th to December 31st. The Honourable Minister John Yakabuski made the announcement live on the fishncanada.com webcast with Ang and Pete at approximately 12:45 PM today.
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One of Canada's longest-running fishing shows, Fish'n Canada travels from coast to coast in search of trophy fishing opportunities. First started by brothers Angelo and Reno Viola in 1986, The Fish’n Canada Show has been on the air for over 30 years. Today, Angelo is joined by lifelong fishing buddy, Peter Bowman, and the pair continue to travel across Canada educating anglers using the experience they’ve gained over the years
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all right um i understand the minister
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is uh has finally got
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through and we're going to bring him on
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and hopefully he'll have some great news
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for us
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uh the honorable uh yakubu hey god
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hey angelo peter you doing good up at
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uh sturgeon lake they've announced an
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opportunity to tour around
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that island just first hand the
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devastation that uh
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cormorants have done to that island and
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also the fact that uh not only to the
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island itself but the
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the effect they have on fish stocks 143
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000 cormorants in this province of
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ontario eating a pound a day each
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uh has a massive effect on our fish
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stocks today we announced that we'll
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have a
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cormorant season uh open from september
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15th to december 31st 2020
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to give people an additional tool uh to
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help control uh that population that has
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been
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growing in many areas of the province uh
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static in some other areas but not
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shrinking anywhere
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and since i've been an mpp for 17 years
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that's one of the questions i've been
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asked repeatedly is when are we going to
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do something
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uh to control the cormorant population
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that is devastating
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uh property and islands particularly
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islands here in ontario
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colonies in the province uh continuing
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with that devastation
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we've listened to the people we've
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brought in a a season
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short to a reasonable season september
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15th to december 31st
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all regulations surrounding it you
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cannot you know you cannot abandon the
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the bird once it's been harvested you
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must uh dispose of it properly
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uh limiting to 15 uh
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a bag limit 15 per day so i think we've
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we've
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hit the sweet spot angelo based on all
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of the feedback
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we received all for those in favor and
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those not in favor but i think we've
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we've landed in the right spot and thank
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you for having us on your
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your new blog show oh i i thank you for
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for sharing that with us uh john we've
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been talking about while we're waiting
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for this morning we're talking about uh
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the the whole philosophy behind it and
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and and how
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um you know it's it's pretty easy for
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most people
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who are not into the outdoors most
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people who don't
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hunt and don't fish and don't enjoy
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nature for what
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what the same way that we do it's pretty
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easy
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to say hey like what do you mean you're
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gonna call
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the cormorant like when you think about
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it you know if you if you don't
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understand it
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it's pretty easy but when you start
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looking at it you just mentioned some
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numbers there that are staggering
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if you just think 140 000 pounds per day
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that's about the weight of 50 small cars
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angelo
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anybody can relate to that and and we
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recognize there are some people that
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oppose but angela you and i know there
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are people that oppose
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the harvest of any uh of any animal
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and we respect that everybody's entitled
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to their views
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but if they live on one of these lakes
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or if they visit one of these lakes
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even if they vacation on one of them and
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see the effect
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and the number of birds on that lake and
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the smell around those islands that the
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italian habit
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uh the effect of it is is is absolutely
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uh breathtaking
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no pun intended because i was trying to
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hold my breath when i was walking around
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that island
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but it i think people have a right to be
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able to enjoy their property and without
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any real natural predators
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uh in the in the ecosystem uh steps had
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to be taken
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and this is not we're not going to
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endanger the population of cormorants
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we're going to make sure that there's a
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sustainable
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safe population but we don't we can't
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have uh
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situations where literally where i was
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today thousands of comrades in one small
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island
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i mean that's just uh that's just not
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not just
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i don't think anybody can argue that
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that's not a healthy situation
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and quite frankly even the ministry of
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health has agreed that there have been
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some
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illnesses uh uh transmitted in the water
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from around those islands
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uh that they're not 100 certain of the
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origin but we certainly can't rule out
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that the amount of guano that is
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and droppings around that area has an
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effect
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what's the range john what's the rate of
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these birds like is it
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i know that we used to see up in kenora
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you see them down in southern ontario
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they're all over the province are they
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just in certain areas
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i don't know pretty well pretty well all
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over the province depending upon the
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time of uh you know they're later
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the farther north you go the later
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they're going to get there and the
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sooner they're going to leave
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but these are migratory birds they come
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as mexico they winter
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even as far as chile i'm not sure if the
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chili ones come here chilean ones come
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here but
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they're they're they're they're a bird
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that is a certainly a problem
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uh in many areas and uh we're the first
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government that has recognized the need
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to take
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some measures to give people an
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additional tool in that toolbox
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to help control them uh in their in
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their environment
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john i i was going to ask you to the
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best of your knowledge has
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anything like this ever taken place
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before in this province where
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where the government has come in and
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said hey i'm not aware of this
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i'm not i'm not aware that there's ever
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been a cormorant hunt because
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angelo you and i are roughly the same
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age i know that
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you're like a lot better i have to admit
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but
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in our lifetime i there's never been
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anything like this but but we when i
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when we were growing up
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we didn't have an exploded cormorant
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population either
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cormorant was something we barely heard
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of and so since
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since the 1970s is when the they've they
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really
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exploded in population in numbers
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john are you at liberty to give us any
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other details in terms of
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of are there going to be restricted
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areas
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is there a certain size of of
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of a projectile that can be used like
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what are the rules of red zones maximum
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maximum 10 gauge um
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limits per day you must dispose of the
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of the carcass
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there are a number of other regulations
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that will be released as well
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and to be fair i don't even i don't have
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all of them on the top of my
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head because we just uh finished uh
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making the announcement but uh
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they will be posted for everyone to see
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plainly as well
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has there been anything uh before we let
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you guys have been anything talked
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about regarding you know you mentioned
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disposal is there any value to
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to can they be you know repurposed for
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for for food for maybe animals or i
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don't know i've heard that that uh that
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uh
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theory uh potentially talked about uh i
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don't have any
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real data on it uh most people would
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never eat one to be
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quite honest with you it would be not
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the most appetizing uh thing to uh
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to eat uh but there is some talk of some
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potential
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uh just like dead stock animals are used
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in the you know in the
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in the animal feed business perhaps but
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i don't have any
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any concrete doubt on that okay
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and you know if you're if your labrador
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retriever goes out to pick one up turns
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around and turns around and says i'm not
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bringing that back you know that thing's
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not good to eat okay just to let you
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know
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when you're done that's a good yard
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um go ahead john glad
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i was going to say do you think this
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would have been possible
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and and i i don't want to sort of make
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up scenarios here but do you think this
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would have been possible
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if we weren't in the middle of this this
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insanity called a pandemic right now
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do you think this was part of the
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thinking here or or how did you deal
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with it well
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we actually we actually passed the
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legislation uh
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last november uh it was part of our
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legislation in the fall economic
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statement
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the pandemic and the uh
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needed time to get the regulatory stuff
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in place
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uh slowed it down but that's in a way
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that was a good thing because i think it
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gave us the opportunity
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to make sure we get it right so before i
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let you go one last comment i want to
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make now that we've got the cormorant
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situation
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done do you think we're going to have a
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two rod
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carp regulation somewhere in the future
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well well i'm ready for it i need i need
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the cooperation of my federal
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federal counterpart in the uh federal
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government but uh
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we're certainly continuing to press on
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that and the pandemic has said what it
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wouldn't have happened this year even if
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we did have the authority
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uh because of all of that uh most likely
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but we're still very hopeful for next
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year
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and so perfect listen um
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we we appreciate you doing this with us
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today i know you're right
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you're up to your elbows and stuff up
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there uh for you to take a break just
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means so much to us and i know our
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audience
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absolutely appreciates it keep up the
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great work i've told you before
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uh thank god we had this government in
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place
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when we hit this little roadblock in our
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history
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i wouldn't want anybody else at the helm
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looking after us right now so keep up
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the good work
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thanks angelo appreciate you having us
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on take care all right take care
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uh the honorable john jacobski coming on
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our program and breaking it live
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electronically how feeling is that
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that was awesome that is so awesome what
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a great guy
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what a great guy john is um
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right from the very first day that that
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he was appointed and you know
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he came in right behind another really
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great
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uh minister as far as i was concerned um
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and so i was a little bit yeah you know
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when when they first put him because i
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didn't know john prior to
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uh to him becoming minimal resources
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jeff urich if you recall was
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was the minister for a short period of
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time and jeff was outstanding
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uh but i gotta tell you john is just he
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gets it
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yeah he understands that's so refreshing
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to have who understands
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