Mandatory anal swabs are in order.
I tried to find out if there was a fee for this cleaning and could not. I doubt it’s free. That may be one reason. Another is that it may take a long time to do. If there is a line and it takes, say forty minutes, you could spend hours in line.
Can you imagine having a wife who didn’t really want to go anyway and a couple of small children and spending several hours waiting to get your boat cleaned? Add that by the time you are back on the road from your boating trip, everyone is tired and you’ll be arriving home well after dark with everyone in a bad mood.
People in general simply don’t want to be inconvenienced and probably don’t see invasive species as their problem.
“...ay that 89% of the trailered motorboats traveling north into the Adirondacks on Interstate 87 passed the inspection/decontamination station without stopping...”
Because these folks are pulling their boats to their new homes in other states. Adios New York!
Zebra muscles all over the great lakes.
Unless I-87 got flooded recently..flooded so much that you can boat on it...😀
Boating inspection stations, in my opinion, are a
necessary evil. Getting your boat inspected in parts
of New Mexico are mandatory where trout fishing is
a huge industry. I could easily be wiped out by
invasive species, plants, and disease. There are
cleaning stations along the San Juan river and
Navajo Lake, where fly fishermen are required to
clean there gear before they wade in the water.
It’s worth the hassle when you’ve hooked that 5lb
rainbow on a flyrod.
Those boats must identify as illegal refugees and hence can spread disease to all waters, people, places.
Zebra mussels mess up my drop shot fishing. Things are sharp.
Considering that it’s New Yawk, they’re probably looking for guns too.