Comment from Charles Finui, Green Spring Trout Farms,Inc

As you have already been informed, the interim order on interstate movement of fish and the restriction thereof from VHS "affected" areas is unworkable, financially destructive to the industry in those states, impossible to implement, and generally downright ludicrous. My farms are located within easy traveling distance of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, New Jersey, North Carolina, etc.. and I must compete against those farms. This order prohibits me from competing against farms in those states by financially costing me without having ANY effect on the transmission of VHS from the affected area. With all due respect, this order is like a reaction to a large truck bearing down on you, and you are worried about the left rear tail light. The transmission of VHS will be made by fish eating birds or mammals OR the weekend boater who goes to the affected waters and then brings the boat back home on Monday to his local lake. Efforts should be concentrated on these modes of transmission and not by restricting movement from fish farms that have never had the virus, do not have it now, and will not have it in the future. This is a badly thought out, poorly structured, feable attempt to do something. I just do not know what it does.