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I was wondering if anyone could help me or direct me to someone I can ask. If I have a comm. boat permit, license, and want to use my other boat, 14' tin boat, does the license cover that boat too or am I limited to just my boat I have listed on the license. I would think it would cover any of my boats but am unsure. Thanks Paul

Good Question PM, I was wondering that myself. IE, what if I went on my buddies boat for the day instead of mine. If you have a boat permit, can you comm bass off the beach? i assume yes, so what else would be different.

If youi have a comm BOAT permit,
you can only comm fish from the boat named on the lic!
Your lic has the boat name, boat length, and ms or docoment numbers on it!
You can go from boat to boat with an individual comm permit!, but anyone and everyone has to have an individual permit also on that boat!
I don't think you can hold both a boat & individual permit!

Thanks that is what I thought. Paul

In case anyone is interested I just talked to the Marine Fisheries today and they told me that I am covered if I fish in the named boat on the license with other people, a boat permit. I am also able to fish and sell from my other skiff as long as I go by myself. I can also fish from the beach and sell also with the permit. So in other words the license is a boat permit on my named boat and it is a personal permit, with said restrictions, from any other boats and shore. Hope that clears it up. Paul

Thanks for that update PM. I'll bet you a 4oz jig if you call and ask the same question 3 more times to 3 different people you'll get 3 differing results...........that has been some of my questions to various Enviromental officers....one classic is ask an EC about using pollock for bait, they all have a different answer for thaqt one, very frustrating at times.

That may be so with a state boat license, but if you have a federal commercial license also, the federal superceeds the state license and the license goes to the boat that is named on the federal permitted boat ONLY!!!

I did talk to someone in the Pocasset office and he told me to call the guy in Boston I ended up talking to. The guy in Pocasset said he is the one to ask . I hope the hell he knows what he is talking about I asked him if he was sure about 3 times and he seemed confident. Who knows. Paul