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Been fishing the WW for 35 years or so,today was the first time I got checked out by a game worden.He checked the 6 or 7 guys fishing for there fed registration card..
One of the guys there said they were there checking saturday also.

big whoop...where are they when we call in poachers?

Good news. At least its a start.

I spent 30.50 online to get my mass license yesterday. Fished all day.

Didn't see no one. waste o money, in 25 years in MA, I been carded once

That will all change with the new Lic!! We are just going to pay for more cops to harass the good people, the bad will always get away!

Denis;
I left you a message over the weekend / ya never returned it .....your loss :smash:

were they citing people that didn't have the card?

You'll probably be seeing them out there a lot this year. They have to justify their jobs more now than ever before.

There is no charge for a marine rec fishign license in 2010

None of the MA license money in 2011 is going to law enforcement...they are already paid to enforce the law

It's great to see officers doing their jobs...I know a few MA EPO's that are dedicated and do well considering there are not enough of them.

Too bad they fought hard to leave the MA Dep't of Fish & Game a few years ago to become part of the State Police.

the MA liscnese is $30??? Why bother, just buy the RI out of state for $10?

I didn't know they tried to roll into the M.S.P., thats interesting. I'll bet the troopers fought against that. The troopers who are academy trained are sick of the MDC and registry troopers who in some cases never went to an acredited academy or went to the MDC academy, which just isn't the same level of training as one rceieves in New Braintree.

It'll be a case of good and bad this year.
Good that there will be increased presence due to the new salt water "license", and hopefully less poaching.
Bad because they will have to spend MORE time checking all the legit anglers, that they won't have time to catch any poachers.

I do understand that since their budget was cut, and thus was their staff, it's hard to supply the workforce to comfortanly patrol ALL the waterways, and check EVERY angler.

All I can say is that they better not start "enforcing" their own rules, and interfere with the anglers right to fish.

I can only hope that the end result will be a well managed system and better control on illegal activities.....But then we are talking Massachussets here, so who knows what will ACTUALLY get done correctly.

Any guesses as to how long it takes before the state house tries to "acquire" the license fee $$ and add it to the hack-a-rama "rainy day" slush fund?

He must have been talking about the freshwater license. MA saltwater fishing is free this season.

Rockport;

no they were just given warnings.

:uhuh: