[John H K]

All the states of the West Coast and the Gulf of Mexico and the Southeast require a saltwater fishing license; NONE of the states from North Carolina to Maine require one.

Maryland and Virginia require a license to fish the (saltwater) Chesapeake Bay, but not the Atlantic coast, and they have full reciprocity. This summer, Virginia is extending the license requirement to the coast (same license as the Chesapeake one, don't need to buy a new one.)

Whether to have a saltwater license is a major political controversy in pretty much all the Mid-Atlantic and New England states.

[Soul Citizen]

This is a takings whereby the federal government will in the end only rob the fund for other government expenditures.

It is being done under the guise of fisheries research however the government cannot be trusted to manage the money!

KEEP IT FREE FR!

[Soul Citizen]

I hated the Virginia law translating it to understand where exactly someone might be fishing.

Fishing license for the Chesapeake Bay, was that inside the bridge tunnel, or a point somewhere at the mouth between fishermans island and Fort Story?

Then there is also the problem of the funds for fisheries infrastructure like boat ramps being allowed to build waterfront parks, management of money becomes a buracracy.

Once these thing are voted in they never expire or sunset away, we become slaves of the state.

There may also be some common law problems with requiring the ocean regulations. (debatable)