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

[Rob Rockcrawler]

Ive seen worse bills come across the governors desk. We are going to have licenses, and this doesn't seem to bad. I didnt see a price for the permits, and hope that it is reasonable. I like the fact that the board will be..."The panel shall consist of 2 members of the marine fisheries advisory commission and 3 members of the public at large, all of whom shall have specific expertise and background in the commonwealth’s marine recreational fisheries." If it is actually 3 people that are recreational fisherman they could sway the votes.

[JohnR]

Don't get Mass jammed up the way Rhody is now. It sucks but it is what it is.

As of this time, in RI I will need to get the Federal License, I will need to get a Mass license, and probably a CT license for the handful of times I go there. Then, on the radar screen is New York & NH/Maine.

Fark

[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...............