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Originally Posted by jmen24
You make a very valid point and you are right. While you are correct that $53 is a lot of money for a fishing license if you are fighting everyday to keep your head above water. I would think that if you are in that position, then you would not need to be purchasing an out of state license for fishing and take the lower resident rate license from the state you reside in. Which in NH is $35.
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You are assuming that people dont live near the border and the water is on the other side,,,
The reality is that its not a big point in my world, I haven’t been into fishing for many - many years now, I just have way too many hobbies and not nearly enough time for them. If I were interested in fishing the license fee wouldn’t stop me in any way, but then I am fully employed and earn a reasonable living.
I’ll be the first to admit that mine may be a different perspective, but I don’t see how you can reasonable argue that a fishing license fee should be legitimate because a day of skiing costs
X or a day on a charter boat costs
Y. Again I may well be the odd man out, but I can’t help but feel like anyone who could make such a statement must live in an isolated world. Nothing wrong with that, but if you look around, you have to see that there are plenty of folks not as well off as we are and for some of them fishing is an inexpensive hobby that is fun and relaxing and in some cases it can put food on the table. So I for one don’t see fishing from shore or from a rowboat in the same class as downhill skiing or fishing for tuna from a chartered boat, or any of these other more expensive luxuries.
I hope that none of you who would argue that the $35/$53 fee is reasonable should ever find themselves unemployed or otherwise on the low end of the income spectrum, as it will surly come as shock to find that you can no longer afford the “simple things” in life,,,
OK, now I’m really done (I promise,,, this time LOL
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