RI Saltwater fishing license required starting 1/1/10

Lprizman · 10-30-2009, 12:28 PM

It was aproved, $7 for residents $10 for non residents.
Only positve I see is the enviro police getting after the "you know who's" taking anything and everything below size, regardless of the species and legal limits.

Only a matter of time till stamps are added, similiar to the trout fresh water stamp without actually stocking the species.
Prediction:
2012- striper stamp add $5.00
2013- tautog stamp add $6.00
2014- fluke stamp add $4.00
etc, etc,

gear up all it's comin'

castalot · 10-30-2009, 03:21 PM

wtf
and i'm sure the money is going back to better our ramps and stuff...right?

Sleeper · 10-30-2009, 03:37 PM

The new law here: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/BillTex...9/S0969Aaa.pdf

amchevy · 10-30-2009, 03:58 PM

I dont really have too much of a problem with it, but Im sure as Lprizman stated, whats next?? I believe he hit the nail right on the head with the stamps in addition to the license fee.
Just another way to dig us out of the financial hole we are in I guess. Chalk it up to being a part of your fishing/boating expense.
So now I have to pay extra to get skunked. Oh well

RK8776 · 10-30-2009, 04:57 PM

Just like New York State.

Next they will lower your bag limits and increase size limits.

Sleeper · 10-31-2009, 04:23 AM

There are two interesting points I see after reading this law closely.

1. It says if you hold a federal NMFS recreational license you are exempt. I guess that means a HMS recreational? I don't know why they put that in there.

2. The reciprosity part where an out of state fisherman does not need a RI license if the state he is from allows RI licensed fisherman to fish in that state. It would be good if all the NE states put that in the language because you know they are all going to go with license requirements.

gerg · 10-31-2009, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeper

There are two interesting points I see after reading this law closely.

1. It says if you hold a federal NMFS recreational license you are exempt. I guess that means a HMS recreational? I don't know why they put that in there.

2. The reciprosity part where an out of state fisherman does not need a RI license if the state he is from allows RI licensed fisherman to fish in that state. It would be good if all the NE states put that in the language because you know they are all going to go with license requirements.

I think the "Federal Rec. Permit" is a different beast than the hms permit. The feds were always planning on having a permit, which should be free until 2011 or 2012, and after that they will charge for it.

So presumably we can just get the free fed permit for the first couple of years.

Second, the "fine" print in these licenses is that you have to have a residents permit to get reciprocity. So I can't get a nonresident RI permit and use that for reciprocity in NY and CT. I can probably get a resident MA permit and that should have reciprocity with RI though. But probably not NY or CT.

Even so, NY is only granting localized reciprocity to other states. CT only gets long island sound and fishers island, but not montauk or the south beaches. I'm not sure what RI would get, but it's probably just fishers island.

All in all, RI's bill is much more fisherman friendly than either CT or NY. They thought it through and took all of the issues into consideration, and they really did consult with SW anglers (as opposed to CT which was largely driven by the freshwater anglers).

M1911 · 10-31-2009, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Lprizman

It was aproved, $7 for residents $10 for non residents.
Only positve I see is the enviro police getting after the "you know who's" taking anything and everything below size, regardless of the species and legal limits.

They aren't doing much to stop people keeping undersize fish now. What makes you think that will change in the future? Besides, it will be far easier to enforce the license law than the undersize fish law -- they won't have to actually catch you with a fish, just with a pole on the beach and no license.

Lprizman · 11-01-2009, 08:14 AM

to answer your question,,yes they will be checking everyone for licenses and hope this will also help stop those who hoard the small ones neeedlessly,,,at the end of the day probally not,,but wishfull thinkin

castalot · 11-05-2009, 06:08 PM

can you say veto

bosdad · 11-08-2009, 03:32 PM

The bill was vetoed! Someone told me that it was NOT the right thing to do because the RI saltwater fisherman may now be responsible to purchase a Federal Saltwater license...for something like $ 50.00!!!
Is that true? Can anyone with better knowledge of this enlighten me on this one?

Sleeper · 11-08-2009, 04:15 PM

http://www.projo.com/news/content/Sa...2.3a62fca.html