Registration/License

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Originally Posted by Mike P

But if you fish CT, the RI license will be honored there. Otherwise you'd need a CT non-resident license and I know they cost more than $7

As for Mass, if you have a license from any state, you don't need the Registry card--that is a Federal law requirement and the law says people with valid SW licenses from any state or a Federal fisheries permit (HMS permit for example) don't need to register.

Next year you will need a SW license for Mass. However if your state allows Mass residents reciprocity, Mass will honor that license. As of today, NH, RI and CT all offer reciprocity to Mass. residents. Maine and NY do not, so anglers from those two states will need a Mass non-resident license beginning in 2011, unless their laws are amended. NJ has not yet decided on a license and may never act. Their anglers will have to pay whatever the Federal registry fee will be next year, AND buy a license from every state they want to fish in, if they don't have a license in place.

I just went on the RI site and got the RI license too. So either way I'm covered, and maybe puts a + in the Karma box.