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Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR
Pretty sure if you're fishing in another states state waters, you have to have a license to fish there. Federal waters honor reciprocity agreements, but state waters normally do not.
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You are correct, for freshwater lakes and the ilk. But in cases like this one, where the border between NY and NJ is a tidal river (Hudson), I think it's always been held that it's where you launch from that dictates whose license you need. And in all cases, don't forget that we're talking about the Federally mandated Saltwater license, not a state license. So I think that as long as you have one it covers all areas. For instance, how do you know (if you're in the Gulf of Mexico for instance), whose state waters you're actually fishing in? That can change in an instant as you drift from one State boundary to another's. It would be ludicrous to have to require a sport recreational fisherman to acquire Saltwater licenses from each of the states that border the Gulf. Not talking commercial fishermen here. They live under a different set of rules.
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