I did put a link to that thread, but I figured the duck forum is such a "backwater" that I needed to do something more to alert the general BYC population.
Seriously! Unless you have a permit for raising meat or already own some you can grandfather in.
And they intend to hunt down all the feral ones in the US except a couple of places in Texas where they are considered native.
These are really useful ducks, and who's to say the feds can demand...