Re: The extra chunk of New Mexico

On Jun 23, 12:05 pm, John David Galt <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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).

Maybe since it's hard to "mark" the state boundary in Lake Tahoe, the
GLs or Champlain, this is the case.

But as I mentioned upthread, the Ohio River is entirely within the
boundary of KY and WV, so OH, IN and IL have nothing to say about what
happens on the waters.


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