Curtis Thurman had just finished catching a nice limit of fish when the wildlife enforcement officer popped suddenly out of the forest to issue him a citation for illegal snagging in the South Fork of the Boise River.An even greater shock followed when Thurman discovered the yearlong suspension of his fishing privileges imposed after his guilty plea included not only Idaho, but some two dozen other states.

Those states are all members of the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact, formed in 1991 as an effort by the six founding states -- Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington -- to protect from poachers fish and wildlife that bring in millions of tourist dollars annually.

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