Registration/License

[decksweeper]

Interesting....so for 2010, you need either the federal which is FREE, or the State which is 7 bucks.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by decksweeper

Interesting....so for 2010, you need either the federal which is FREE, or the State which is 7 bucks.

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.

[decksweeper]

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.

[BassDawg]

just registered~~~

so is this a new set of ####'s to memorize right
along with me bank acct's, ss#, wife's and daughter's social's,
and the thousands of other phone digits bouncing around in there???

shore hope this works the way we want it to!!
if NOT, they'll be counting one less angler. don't really
see this as very enforceable, except if yer fishin' where
they expect ya to be fishin'

[basswipe]

Quoted from the website:

Other state waters: The RI license also applies in the state waters of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York, as well as in the waters of all other states that honor RI's license (a list of all other states will be provided here as soon as information on those states is collected).

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by basswipe

Quoted from the website:

Other state waters: The RI license also applies in the state waters of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York, as well as in the waters of all other states that honor RI's license (a list of all other states will be provided here as soon as information on those states is collected).

DEM is handing out wrong advice there.

There is a very small portion of NY waters where a RI license will allow one to fish--and from shore, it basically limits you to Montauk. From NY's DEC Marine website:

Are there any reciprocal license agreements with other states where marine waters form boundaries with other states?
Yes. If a state sharing a marine water boundary with New York has an active marine license** program and grants New York recreational marine fishing license holders fishing privileges in that state's portion of the boundary water(s), then New York grants the appropriately licensed anglers from that state the privilege to fish in the New York portion of the boundary water(s) without securing a New York recreational marine fishing license. The following waters are included in this reciprocal agreement:

Connecticut: those parts of Long Island Sound lying between New York and Connecticut

New Jersey: those parts of New York Harbor, Hudson River, Kill Van Kull, Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, and Atlantic Ocean lying between New Jersey and New York, and

Rhode Island: those parts of Long Island Sound, Block Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean lying between Rhode Island and New York.

[basswipe]

This is the kind of crap that pisses me off.This is why SW liscences are an effing joke.NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE EFF IS GOING ON!!!Nobody and everybody either knows it all or knows nothing.Does anybody out there REALLY know what the scoop is with the RI SW liscense?


I'm done with worrying about be liscensed to fish the salt.I just won't and I'll bend over when the time comes and pay the goddamn penalty.

For %$%$%$%$s and grins I just tried purchasing the RI liscense.Site don't work.Imagine that...something not working right in RI.