Fish & Game looking for new fees!

[NightWing]

Originally Posted by Airwaves

From article:

I wonder where they got the figure that there are only 150,000 kayaks, canoes, rowboats, Sunfish etc in the state?

Sunfish are already supposed to pay a registration, since they are sailboats 12 feet and over in length.

[lynnicken]

I know this is a "Lake" forum and I appologize that my previous rant focused more on hunting but it's the season we're in right now. Now I don't have one of those go fast boats and I don't wish to get off on the speed limit issue on this thread. I do have a motorized boat, a canoe, and a kayak and understand people's safety concerns, but I believe speed is not the issue on Winni, it's congestion and boaters not following separation and right of way rules.
If I could get back to the Fish and game Dept funding issue. All those public launches around the state, guess who pays for those?

[Airwaves]

Nightwing wrote:

Sunfish are already supposed to pay a registration, since they are sailboats 12 feet and over in length.

I think you get my point, if not PM me.

lynnicken wrote:

If I could get back to the Fish and game Dept funding issue. All those public launches around the state, guess who pays for those?

Exactly, perhaps those "free" boat launches that folks use, but are willing pay to park trailers on private property, should have a launch fee attached?

APS wrote:

Although one or two rescued hikers have cheerfully coughed up the thousand$ that visitors cost the State for their rescues, how much goes uncollected?

It is my understanding that when a hiker gets lost in the woods that if he/she is negligent then F&G charges them for the cost of the rescue operation. They certainly have the authority to do so, if they don't then that should be addressed.

[fatlazyless]

Maybe the new Democratic legislature would support a two-part bill. It could create the ten dollar, Fish & Game, decal for non-motorized boats, and establish an HB162 style state-wide law which sets the limits at 45mph day, and 25mph night, all over the state. After all, the performance boaters were referring to the kayaks as 'speed bumps," so the kayakers would get a safer lake for their ten dollars.

[The Big Kahuna]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Maybe the new Democratic legislature would support a two-part bill. It could create the ten dollar, Fish & Game, decal for non-motorized boats, and establish an HB162 style state-wide law which sets the limits at 45mph day, and 25mph night, all over the state. After all, the performance boaters were referring to the kayaks as 'speed bumps," so the kayakers would get a safer lake for their ten dollars.

There you go, what other ideas can we come up with to help fund Fish & Game?