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That law suit is nothing new and is more aobut NY State Legislative procedure, than anything else.
If you read all the articles about the mess NY is trying to deal with that then you will learn that they had a recreational steering committee that wrote a license, could not agree, then all kinds of groups (not all fishers) tried to lobby the bill...the NY legislature eventually passed a bill that was going to take all the salt water license money to pay for a bankrupt inland fishing fund and it got worse from there.
That whole situation is a big mess and is exactly why the MA Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission, Cape Cod Salties, MBBA, MSBA, MA Sportsman's Council, Red Top, Surfland, Fishing Finatics, New England Outdoor Writers Assn, On The Water, Charlie Soares etc etc etc. joined together to sek out and find the best way to lessen the damage. We have done good and are asking for fishermen to help.
By the way...the Shelter Island Paper is a dinky little publication that I doubt has any legal staff never mind enough legal staff to give reporters advice on federal fisheries authorities so taking their reporters view of anything is probably not very smart. Just because the press prints it does not make it true.
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