Carping about official state fish

Rights Boy’s good friend Mike Burgher opined about channel catfish in this morning’s Des Moines Register.

You can find his edited letter, along with comments from other readers, here.

The unedited opinion follows.

Another legislative session coming to an end, and no action on crowning my beloved channel catfish as the official state fish! Where is the justice?

The carp lobby has grown strong and become quite vocal this year. Even the walleye crowd, once considered an ally, has become a different kettle of fish.

This is one of the few things the Legislature can do that won’t cost the taxpayers a lot of money along the way. Oh, Brad Zaun, you express such outrage about your dinner; why aren’t you as concerned about mine?

Declare the channel cat as our State Fish!