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More on Federal Registry vs Saltwater license
Well the RI situation is getting more and more interesting and in less
than twenty four hours to boot. The Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization and Amendment Act of 2007 required that states create a system by which sal****er anglers have to register information, by survey, for catches. In theory, this would allow for more accurate sampling of catch data. A normal procedure would be through a license system and that's what most states have done - so far that is. The Federal Registry, which costs the angler $25, is not a license. Several states have been under the impression that the Federal Registry is a license - it's not. It does nothing other than put your contact information into the Federal reporting system for fisheries as a recreational angler. It does not give you any rights to fish in sal****er within state waters - or Federal waters for that matter. The MSRAA alsorequires states that do have a sal****er license structure to change that structure to conform to Federal requirements. Chatter seems to indicate that RI's Governor Carcieri has opened a can of worms with his rejection of Rhode Island's license - Mass has indicated that the monies wil be designated to the General Fund under the states rights clause Carcieri used as his basis for rejection instead of to the state's fisheries as mandated. The states that have boat licenses, which are not part of the Federal mandate requirements, are balking (as I understand it) and in CT, Governor Rell's veto, which was over ridden by the Legislature, is now reentering the conversation apparently. This could prove to be a couple of interesting months with regards to the recreational fishing scene. |
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