MSBA Action Alert---Ask the Governor to sign the License Bill

[ecduzitgood]

Ok, I must be missing something and need some educating. Perhaps this could be discussed both pro's and cons? I look at the MSBA as a proponent of the recreational fishing comunity. Am I mistaken or just uninformed? Please help me learn by providing your point of view so I am not so ignorant (for lack of a better term). Pm's for those who prefer to keep their coments out of the public's eye is fine and I will keep your identities confidential, I really just want to know both sides.
Thanks in advavnce, Ed

[JohnR]

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

[MakoMike]

You don't need nutting until 2011 and the way things are shaping up all of New England may tell the feds to go pound sand. What's the rush?

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

You don't need nutting until 2011 and the way things are shaping up all of New England may tell the feds to go pound sand. What's the rush?

The last time an entire region told the Federal government to go pound sand was in 1861---how'd that turn out?

One last time--the Feds have the power to shut down a state's fishery if the state is out of compliance with ASMFC or NMFS regulations.

[basshunter]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

You don't need nutting until 2011 and the way things are shaping up all of New England may tell the feds to go pound sand. What's the rush?

it's my understanding that you will need a license in MA in 2010 but it will be free yet still have to register, starting in 2011, it will be a paid license

[Gary]

Thats like getting a fat girl in a bikini.

Take the F out of fat and the F out of Way, Then you come to the stunning realisation that there's no F in Way...............

[macojoe]

Fresh water had a deciated fund at one time, and then it was thrown in to the general fund giving the fishery a very small portion back to run on.

Its all BULL!! they suck you in and before you know it bam in the ass!

No sir I no giving them permission to take away my free right to fish!! You can't even take a kid to the water to wet a line with out paying for the right!!
Glad when I was a kid my dad was able to do things with us for free!