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Beach,
I appreciate your well thought out and written opinions. I wish to ask on what basis you state that a license is coming in MA. I would disagree strongly with this statement.
The basis for this would be the following.
1) MA tried to back door a license about 7 years ago. A very quick public demonstration killed it in less than a week. This is with a DMF Commish that was in favor of the license. Many politicians took serious hits over supporting the license.
2) Paul Diodati (durrent DMF Commish) has stated many times both in public and private that he is not in favor of a license in MA. In fact at the recent SB Advisory Panel meeting he told us all on the record that he did not see a license in the future at all.
3) MA Pols in general listen to Ma facts and the numbers the state uses to determine the benefits of fishing just say that a license would be detremental.
4) The MA recreational community continues to become and even stronger lobbying group. The coalition of related groups, clubs and organization is very active right now in the Freedom to Fish Bill and there is not a state politician that is looking to bring up the license thing with this kind of pressure ongoing.
My comments are not to say that wqe should not always be on the lookout, but right now to say a license is coming would just be inaccurate from my perspective.
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