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Originally Posted by tsubaki

I want that NOAA thing about the federal license crap! Got a link, post it.
Sneaky as them bastadges are, it is probably already in the mix.
Normally, there is not enough money in the (these) states budget to survive by themselves to police/enforce offshore regulations. On the flip side, the federal people usually employ the state to do the same enforcement.

Tsubaki, Last year NOAA required everyone that fishes offshore to "register" so that they could do an accurate headcount on how much fishing pressure was put on various fish species. (How they intended to do that was beyond me, since whenever I go fishing if something isn't biting I just switch over to a different type of fish... Fluke become Blues become Stripers, etc. so how the hell will they know what's biting that day?) Anyways the "registration" was free last year but at the time they said that they foresaw that in the next year (2011) it would be $15 for the registration. So this year, unless the public outcry has caused them to change their minds (fat chance) you'll have to pay a $15 fee to register to fish offshore (salt) waters. You can call it a registration or you can call it whatever you want, it is, in fact, a national salt water fishing license. Thank all the enviormentalists and tree huggers for this one. The Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation Act, that was never intended to be used for this purpose, is how they are justifying this BS. Go to NOAA's website for full details.

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/msa2005/

https://www.countmyfish.noaa.gov/

https://www.countmyfish.noaa.gov/new..._Fee_nov10.pdf

The second link is the one that tells you the fee.