RI Fishing license info 2012 and DEM police numbers

[Saltheart]

The way I read it , if you have an RI license it is good in MA and CT and maybe more states. If you have the MA license its good in RI and CT etc. You just need one saltwater license be it federal or state.

I may be wrong but that's how I read it.

[Raven]

20-2.2-5. Exemptions.

A license shall not be required for anyone who is:

(1) Under the age of sixteen (16);

(2) Permanently disabled,
that would be me.. i am exempt

i have the plackard too
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i am not so handicapped in the morning
but by after noon i am (ankle wise)
--->as it uses up my battery life
like a freakin cell phone...
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i'll carry my old one (plackard) on me
and a letter (just in case) i get a prick

[Stewie]

Is the Massachusetts saltwater license available yet?

If so, where can I get one?

[RI Swamp Yankee]

RI DEM says saltwater license won't be available until mid-April. Free NOAA registration will work in RI, but doesn't help us to fish MA or CT unless we buy a non-resident license to fish there. Screwed by the state again.

[spence]

I guess growing up in a landlocked state I'll never understand how it's a right to fish in the ocean but not inland.

Reading the entire contents of the bill, it seems to be quite rational and limited in scope. It's nearly free, by law all the money goes towards fisheries/coastal access management and even the fines are very small for violations.

-spence

[Mugz]

This is absolute rediculous........so RI guys need to buy a $7 lisence? And us in MA just file for the Federal one and we are good to go in CT and RI?

WHO MAKES UP THIS SH^T?

[rocketman]

Originally Posted by spence

I guess growing up in a landlocked state I'll never understand how it's a right to fish in the ocean but not inland.


-spence

I always felt that a freshwater license was justified because the states are stocking trout, walleye, pike etc.

Nobody stocks the ocean though.

I'm glad to hear that my license is reciprocal. My wife got it as a combo with my freshwater license as a Christmas gift. I usually fish RI more than CT simply because of access headaches in CT. I would have only gotten the RI license if it was my choice, but reading this makes me feel a little better. It's all one ocean so it should be all one license IMO.