So as of this time RI and MA do not recognize each others licenses. Am i reading this correctly? I was really hoping the MA, RI and CT would all cover each other.

that's the way I read it Rob - but I think this reciprocity stuff is evolving . . . :fury:


Saltheart - thanks for posting that info - it was most helpful :uhuh:

"All permit fees will be deposited in a dedicated account, managed by the Division of Marine Fisheries"

:wall: This is like giving free crack to an addict!:jump1:

It wont be long before DMF officials are driving BMW's now...

This plan is already WAY too complicated and will not do what it is intended to do...help count fish.

I was just thinking, what does a guy from Vt do, buy a license from each state.

what next are they going to throw at us are first born.

Now that NY has just eliminated its license and gone over to a free registry like NJ, will RI follow suit?

Has anyone found anything official, stating that MA and RI are reciprocal states?

I found this on the RI DEM site...

http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/bnatr...df/saltabs.pdf

Page 7, first paragraph lists Connecticut and New York only.


I found this on the MA DMF site....


http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dmf/recre...dual_ma_ri.pdf

A letter from Paul Diodati stating that MA would accept another state, if that state accepts ours...


????? .....:confused:......?????

What's the final verdict and where can one officially find it???

The MA site has pdf documents showing the reciprocity with RI, CT, and NH.

:jump1:

Trying to attach the link...hope it works

http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dmf/recre...its.htm#permit

I talked to the "Horse" earlier today. :uhuh:


Thanx for the linkage though,.

Environmental Police phone #s
 

Saw these listed "over there." Not a bad idea to plug the one you need into your cell phone. If you see it, report it.

If you have more local numbers, please list them.

In New York, Poachers and Polluters 1-800-TIPP-DEC

In Connecticut Turn In Poachers (TIP) 800-842-4357

In New Jersey OPERATION GAME THIEF
CALL TOLL FREE
1 (800) 222-0456
IT'S CONFIDENTIAL!

Massachusetts: Environmental Police Hotline: 1-800-632-8075

New Hampshire: Operation Game Thief 1-800-344-4262

Rhode Island: Rhode Island Environmental Police Hotline: 401-222-3070


Sticky worthy?

Stuck.

What's the number for the EEZ :devil2: ?

Yea call the ri one they'll show up three days later....seven dollars well spent
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The number is on the RI license in real small print so I wrote it on the back much larger before laminating it.

Last year in a honey hole I go to there were alot of people taking shorts, gill nets w called they dem showed up there days later aster w almost got into fist fights with these people.
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Thanks I'm going to call on the natives in Quincy illegally netting every single fish coming down black's creek.

anything for Maine?

DEM...
 

Might as well call Beavis and Butthead.

Well, if you are not part of the solution, you've become part of the problem......

Well you made me laugh! It's been a long, tough day and I needed that.

Thank you nightfighter. I do have the MA # in my phone as well as local police.
It's all good.

The licenses have nothing to do with fishing, it has to do with identity checks.

I called RIDEM last year from right in front of the Hurricane Barrier in the Prov River. Told them there was a pogy boat right up against the barrier s#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g up pogies. They said " No, that cannot be true as that's not legal. I said "NO S hit. Why the F#%%$#@ do you think I'm calling you???? No one from DEM ever showed up.:wall:

Take pics next time. A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Good luck getting ANY EPO on the south shore to do their jobs! Its a JOKE! I have called people in many times and guess what? They do nothing!

RI Saltwater Licenses
 

Are now available for $7.00 at:

RIDEM/Division of Fish & Wildlife- Recreational Saltwater Fishing License Index Page

Did you guys have one last year too?
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I didn't. I had the federal license. Just decided to get the RI license and keep the money in the state.

Federal license worked last year. This year I believe in RI you need the RI license which will be reciprocal in CT & Mass.

So NY, NJ, ME, & MD won't get fishing revenue from me.

Will Post this as a sticky - thanks!

Got It & have it lamanated already .My luck I,d get checked up river by the only time DEM has ever been there .
too bad its all parking meters .its been descent during the daylight :fishin:

LOL, no problem, I'll apply to the White House for an entitlement
to make it up. :)