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Capesams
I have owned Basic Boston Fishing & Sightseeing for three years now. We offer guided shore fishing trips, A professional boat fishing guide service, and now charter fishing trips.
MA has no license or regs for shore guides. You are legally responsible for income tax if under your SS# or all the small business taxes & reporting if under an 04#. Though not required to do this without liability is dow right stupid. I know of one Shore guide that lost his car and had to move do to a client that fee and broke his leg. FYI...there is no such thing as a release that will stand up in court for an unregulated business.
Boat guides are also unregulated. You need no license to go on anothers boat and charge them to instruct them or do the fishing for them. Taxes and reporting of income is the same as on shore guides. Please note, you may not touch any navigational equipment on the boat. If you get on the customers boat and teach them how to fish period, you are a guide. The second you touch a switch, a throttle or a wheel, you need at least an OUVP captains license.
If someone is coming out on your own boat or if you are going on someone else's and touch the controls, you need at lease the OUPV captains license.
I hope this helps
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