Re: The extra chunk of New Mexico

John David Galt wrote:
John Mayson wrote:
My father-in-law was originally from West Virginia. It was a weird
source of pride for him that legally West Virginia "owned" the Ohio
River. If you were in a boat any distance from the Ohio shore, you
needed a WV fishing license and they did enforce it.

That's odd. On Lake Tahoe (which spans the CA/NV border, divided about
70/30) you can fish the entire lake with a license from either state --
but you have to *land* the fish (that is, first touch shore with it) in
the state of your fishing license. I had assumed this was the standard
arrangement (and I'm told it even applies between the US and Canada on
the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain).

The border rules on the Ohio were set a long time ago. IIRC Kentucky "owns" the river west of WV. I'll guess the fishing rules are a source of income for both WV and KY.

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