Fish and Wildlife License Proposed Increase Letter

GOAL · Mar 8, 2021

Fish and Wildlife License Proposed Increase Letter

Gun Owners’ Action League has received overwhelmingly support for our position opposing the proposed hunting/fishing license increase by the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. Many of those supporting our stance have asked if we could help them draft a letter for them to send in. So, here is a link to a draft letter. It is in a document form that can be redrafted to make it fit your individual stance. You can include your specific reasons for not supporting the drastic increases or just print it out as is.

Draft letter link: https://goal.org/Fish-and-Wildlife-License-Proposed.../

Link to original article: https://www.goal.org/GOAL-Not-Supporting-Fish-&-Wildlife...

Coyote33 · Oct 12, 2021

So, did this go anywhere?

Dennis in MA · Oct 12, 2021

Yote - NO! It didn't. ROFL!!! Fee increases passed. They listened. They had budgetary constraints.

smokey-seven · Oct 12, 2021

I've looked around, but cannot find the rate increases over the next few years. Anyone got a handle on that?

Dennis in MA · Oct 12, 2021

On my iPhone. But I found it in literal seconds when I looked earlier. It’s on the MW website.

Matt_SERE · Oct 13, 2021

MassWildlife Funding

For the first time since 1996, MassWildlife is implementing increases to hunting, freshwater fishing, and trapping license fees effective for the 2022 calendar year.

www.mass.gov

MassWildlife Funding

For the first time since 1996, MassWildlife is implementing increases to hunting, freshwater fishing, and trapping license fees effective for the 2022 calendar year.
Following a thorough review by MassWildlife staff and the Fisheries and Wildlife Board, and an extensive, 6-month public engagement effort that allowed the agency to gather feedback from hunters, anglers, and trappers, the Executive Office of Administration and Finance approved MassWildlife’s proposed freshwater fishing, hunting, and trapping license fee increases. The fee increases are the first such increases in 26 years. The approved fee structure, effective in calendar year 2022, is designed to address MassWildlife’s revenue shortfall, sustain the Inland Fish and Game Fund for another decade, fund core operations, and maintain MassWildlife's popular, high-quality programs and services.
Please click here to view the fees for hunting, freshwater fishing, and trapping licenses, permits, and stamps beginning in 2022.

https://www.mass.gov/doc/masswildlife-fee-schedule-2022-2026/download

smokey-seven · Oct 13, 2021

Dennis in MA said:
On my iPhone. But I found it in literal seconds when I looked earlier. It’s on the MW website.

I get the MA Wildlife magazine and that site had a nonfunctional link to the rates. Thanks for noting that it is now working.

Asaltweapon · Oct 13, 2021

I’m done with them. Yes, we have been packing to leave anyway but even if I’m here I’m not playing.

Dennis in MA · Oct 13, 2021

That's a pretty light straw that broke your back. LOL. I can think of 50 reasons why I'd leave mASS but the fishing license fee doesn't make the top 1,000.

All of that $ HAS to stay in MW per federal law. If they take the $ and move it to the general fund, they lose their Dingell-Johnson and Pittman-Robertson $. So this isn't some lame back-door to get Charlie Bustle more $ for his pet projects.