Fwd: Re: Yukon collecting license

[Chris J. Durden]

>Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:32:34 -0600
>To: Guy_VdP at t-online.de
>From: "Chris J. Durden" <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: Yukon collecting 
>license
>
>Guy,
>    If the process is similar to that for fishing and hunting licenses 
> there should be no problem for foreign visitors. I would hope that lead 
> time for obtaining licenses would be minimized. Licences should be 
> available equally to recreational and professional collectors. 
> Identification should be on an as done basis (that means as much as 20 
> years in some groups). Right now for some permits we are required to 
> predict how many specimens we will collect of each species and to 
> identify each specimen to species. In many groups of non-vertebrates that 
> is impossible!
>..............Chris
>
>At 10:22 PM 2/11/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>> >>    Personally I think a postgraduate degree in biology should be
>> >> sufficient license. After all why did we get the degrees if not to
>> >> qualify us to work in this field?
>>
>>I do not have such a degree, and I suppose I'm not the only one.
>>
>> >>    I am in full agreement with the necessity of reporting all findings to
>> >> the biological authority of the territory visited if this is a museum or
>>
>>
>>Let alone that all parties involved will use the same taxonomy, who will
>>verify that the information about the catches is correct?
>>
>>Guy.
>>
>>PS: Would foreigners get the same rights? (I am one)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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