<< As kayaking becomes more and more popular the chance that governments will seek to regulate the sport will increase. The ACA report should give those interested in seeing regulation handled in a reasonable way some good information to work with. Nick Schade >> Nick makes an important point regarding guiding regulating kayaking. The issue for me is intent. The ACA and similar groups can work to ensure the intent of regulation is something useful, like increasing safety (as opposed to purely generating revenue). The intent of regulation should necessarily guide the process of creating regulations and their implementation. If the intent is to increase safety (decrease associated morbidity and mortality), it will need to make a determination of what increases safety adequately to meet the needs of the governing group creating the regulation, measure compliance with those requirements, then measure the effectiveness of the regulation in actually improving safety. Government organizations wishing to regulate kayaking will need to clearly define their intent, create purposeful regulation to accomplish that intent, then measure the effectiveness of the regulation in accomplishing the intent. The concept is riddled with oxymoron... And then there's the whole issue of covering my kayak with registration stickers... Ken Schroeter Old Town Millennium 160 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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