California Quagga Mussel Sticker

For those of us here in California we are being Asked or Required (not sure witch one quite yet) to apply a extra sticker on our boat. What show's up in the mail with your CF sticker is a Extra Sticker (Pictured Below) that they are asking us to put on our boats that does WHAT exactly?????

When you pay for reregistration in California now a portion automatically go's to a Fund that supposedly helps administer propaganda that is supposed to help stop the spread of mussel's. That's all fine and dandy But how does applying a extra sticker to my boat insure or help stop the spread of Mussel's It's a fee wrapped up in your boats registration that you cant Avoid or Not pay even if you wanted.

It annoys me that they are asking us to place another "Sticker" on your vessel that dosent seem to have any rhyme or reason?

Our local Water Patrol told me that he knows of no law that's being broken by not putting it on and he will not be pulling people for NOT displaying it,

When I bought my boat I thought the same thing. I am going to pay the fee as part of my registration, so why do I need another sticker? Does the registration sticker somehow not apply? Seems ridiculous to me. I was hoping it somehow made me exempt from inspections because Sanger put some cool filter on the boat, but that was a mere pipe dream!

Read a bit more about this and it is due to salt vs. Fresh water. Salt water boats don't have to pay the fee and as such won't get the sticker. But if you had a salt boat without a sticker and tried to drop it in a fresh body of water, the lack of a sticker would get you turned away. They should have just changed the format of the sticker but maybe that was not easy enough for officials to quickly evaluated an acceptable veessel?

Not sticking mine. Just have it in the glove box.

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or just register your boat out of state. problem solved

I put mine on I thought it looked sweet!

I'm with Grant. I hate stickers on my boat..but alas it's on there.

I put mine on last year, cops on the delta look for any reason to pull you over. Such bs because I have never been checked, yet i'm clear of mussels now.. apparently.