Happy New Year - Get your %%#%^@ License

[stcroixman]

Originally Posted by Mike P

Mike Bucko is just flat out wrong. All a RI resident will need to fish in CT or NY this year is a $15 NY non-resident license, because a CT license is good in NY, and a NY license is good in CT. Next year, you can buy a $10 non-resident Mass license and fish all over the Northeast, as every state will recognize a Mass license. It will NOT cost Rhody anglers $115 to fish in every state next year.

Buy a NY license online, and you're good for CT and you also will NOT have to register with the Feds. If they board you in RI, you show them a NY non-resident license and you're in compliance with the law even if you're not registered with the Feds.

Next year, if Gov. Chooch is still grandstanding, buy a Mass non-resident license. I understand that the fee is $10 across the board, resident and non-resident alike.

wrong. Reciprocity is granted to you in a non resident state only if you are licensed in your resident state. It works like the credit for taxes paid to another state.

You don't get to choose your resident state.

[striperswiper75]

Originally Posted by stcroixman

wrong. Reciprocity is granted to you in a non resident state only if you are licensed in your resident state. It works like the credit for taxes paid to another state.

You don't get to choose your resident state.

stcroixman, I was thinking about this myself. It would seem the intent of the reciprocity would only be granted if you are licensed in your home state; but I have not come across anything indicating that you have to be licensed in your home state to enjoy reciprocity. I live in CT and was going to bypass purchasing the CT resident license and purchase a NY Non-resident license to cover myself for NJ, NY, CT, RI and MA. Where are you finding information stating that you have to be licensed in your home state?

[stcroixman]

it's common sense first, but peruse any of the states laws that have passed.
You can't pick and choose and a Ct NR license is not going to get you NY reciprocity when you have a RI drivers License for an ID.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by stcroixman

wrong. Reciprocity is granted to you in a non resident state only if you are licensed in your resident state. It works like the credit for taxes paid to another state.

You don't get to choose your resident state.

Point me to the applicable language that says only a resident holding an out-of-state licese will be granted reciprocity.

From the CT DEP website:

What is a reciprocal license privilege? (Is there reciprocity with any other states?)

Connecticut law allows non-resident anglers who hold a marine waters fishing license in New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Maine to fish in the marine district and land marine fish in this state without a Connecticut license provided the state issuing the marine license affords the same privilege to resident Connecticut marine license holders.

From the language of the NH license bill--it's limited reciprocity but nothing in the legislation says you have to have a Mass or Maine resident license.


(c) A nonresident holding a valid recreational saltwater license or a for-hire charter or party boat saltwater license from Maine or Massachusetts, shall be allowed to take, possess, or transport finfish from New Hampshire coastal and estuarine waters, provided that the state in which such person purchased a recreational saltwater license or in which the for-hire vessel is registered allows an angler with a New Hampshire recreational saltwater license or a saltwater for-hire vessel with a for-hire license from New Hampshire to recreationally take, possess, or transport finfish in that state’s coastal and estuarine waters.