Quote Originally Posted by wakina View Post
I live in my camper part of the summer and freeze my catch and then transport them home maybe once a week. The skin on part does not bother me that much for the fish that I am bringing home. But what about the fish that I want to consume while staying at my camper. More often than not on the weekend we eat at least part of the fish that we catch right after cleaning them. This law will be hard to enforce and once in your freezer inside your camper they would need a search warrant to legally search it, an exception would be if they saw you carry in your catch and that would give them probable cause to search it. Your storage shed will not qualify as part of your home and could possibly be legally searched without a warrant if fish are stored in a freezer in your shed but I am unsure about that.
This law was put in place for the problem areas. Sort of like
probable cause. It is stated in the new fishing laws pamphlet. Fish you intend to eat, say that day, odnr ok'd that you can have clean fillets without skin. It is a big change and will be a tough one for people to accept.