I do like the idea of a herp stamp for recreational collecters. The commercial collecting permit requires reporting and I would not mind reporting being required for recreational collecting as well.



I do not like the idea of every animal in your vehicle being automatically assumed to be wild caught. I have been known to bring 20 or 30 captive born graybands out to sell. Most times they are back in the hotel but if I am moving between locations or the hotel has poor security I will sometimes have them in my vehicle.



There are actually many occasions where one would need to transport captive born herps. True most of them would not involve having them on you while hunting but the problem is if you are not hunting and get stopped. I realize this would be a rare situation but I wouldn't want it to become where anytime you had cb herps in you vehicle you had to worry about being stopped. A game warden could actually stop people anywhere in the whole state, not just the trans-pecos. I'm thinking about like if you were a legal vendor at a herp show in Austin or something and you just happened to be stopped on the way going to it or going home.



Overall I think your idea has ALOT of merit but I think we'd need to consider alot of variables before we would make all transportation a potential defacto violation of bag limits.

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