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Side one: Guvmint has been trying to shove a license at state and federal levels for years (see former director Coates), mostly to generate $$ but sometimes with an eye towards better data
Side two: Recreational anglers at large have felt a license flies in the face of your right to fish
Side 3: Big Guvmint - you don't have a license, your getting one, deal with it. Oh, and we want better data
Side 4: Anglers and Angling clubs decided that they would try to put something together that at least has some chance of being agreeable and got much of it to pass without too many guvmint getting their hands in the cookie jar...
That is it in a nutshell, wickedly condensed version
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