Reply #9: This will be stopped [View All]

[alarimer]

Texas Parks and Wildlife has proposed new regulations specifically to prevent this. Public comments will be accepted until April 6, 2005. The Commission will vote on the proposal later in the month. They will probably vote in favor of prohibiting internet hunting.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/involved/pubhear/proposals/proposals_05_06_hunt_fish.phtml

An amendment to §65.11, concerning Lawful Means, would add a provision to prohibit the take or attempted take of wildlife resources by anyone not personally present at the location where the take or attempted take occurs. The department has become aware of recent adaptations of firearms and computer systems that would make it technologically possible for persons to take wildlife resources by use of electromechanical interfaces while not being physically present at the location where the wildlife resources are taken. The amendment is necessary because there is no way for the department to verify compliance with hunting license laws if the participating party is not physically present when and where a wildlife resource is hunted.