{"id":4386,"date":"2011-06-21T07:45:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2011-06-21T07:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:45:34","slug":"st-lawrence-river-impressions-fishing-boat-seizure-kicks-hornets-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/21\/st-lawrence-river-impressions-fishing-boat-seizure-kicks-hornets-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lawrence River Impressions: Fishing boat seizure kicks hornet’s nest"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent the last couple of days exploring Clayton and Wellesley Island, traveling the river in my kayak and on a boat driven by Save the River director Jennifer Caddick.<\/p>\n

When I mentioned to her the seizure of Roy Anderson’s boat by Canadian authorities, Caddick said, “That’s all anyone’s talking about.”<\/p>\n

Anderson, a seasonal resident of Thousand Island Park, told the Watertown Daily Times<\/a> that he was forced to pay $1,000 immediately or risk forfeiture of his boat.<\/p>\n

“I had to pay it on the spot,” Mr. Anderson said. “They seized my boat and I had to buy it back on the spot.”<\/p>\n

That hasn’t gone down well in this part of border country, where fishermen and other boaters regularly drift back and forth over the international water boundary.<\/p>\n

Anderson was less than a quarter mile inside Canadian territory, he wasn’t anchored, and he hadn’t gone ashore.<\/p>\n

According to the Times, New York state has now asked that his thousand bucks be reimbursed.\u00a0 David Sommerstein is reporting this morning that state and Federal lawmakers are moving fast to try to contain the damage.<\/p>\n

“Just the Walleye Association had called me this morning to ask if I can intervene because they\u2019re worried about will this happen again to other Americans during the summer,” state Sen. Patty Ritchie told NCPR. <\/em><\/p>\n

“And I\u2019m actually afraid this could put a real chill on U.S.-Canada relations.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I grew up in Alaska, where fisheries and border issues with Canada were often tense even before 9\/11.<\/p>\n

It’s not a great path to go down and there is a lot more at stake along the St. Lawrence, where sport fishing and tourism are essential to both nations’ economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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