I would have been surprised if they wanted to go into active monitoring of the populations as I would suspect that they don't have the funding to run the program. Different states have different funding allocations, for example in the not too distant past, the entire funding for Pennsylvania's non-game regulations came from the sale of license plates for PA wildlife. That was a little over a 100 thousand a year and it decreased once they started selling other custom plates (like trains, Zoo etc). That money was the entire budget for salary, etc for the non-game animals..

This is why I am never surprised when I see restrictions put into place as it is much cheaper to blanket prohibit than it is to place bag limits as you don't have to train to identify, handle or deal with it in any way other than it is illegal...

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