Comment from Lloyd wright

Comments on the VHS interim proposal This certification process seems to be getting out of hand, is all this really necessary? I am a firm believer in bio security to a point, but when the point is in danger of jeopardizing the industry itself, there will be no need for the proposal. I am in favor of only one certification per year to monitor the status of a production facility. Especially considering that there has never been a recorded case of VHS ever being on a warm water production facility in the Great Lakes quarantine area. If the facility is certified to be free of VHS then that facility should be able to operate as normal without any additional certification or inspection for that year. I am NOT in favor of more than one inspection per year. I am NOT in favor of any 72-hour inspection prior to shipment rule. I am in favor of some monitoring, but lets make it a practical workable system. When it costs a producer $1500 to get $1200 worth of fish certified, that's counter productive. The producer is going to do one of two things: trash the fish and save $300, which puts him out of business because he now has nothing to sell. Or sell the fish underground without certification, which kind of defeats the purpose of the proposal. We need to find a workable system that allows the producer to function.