Originally Posted by
PADDLES
agreed pinhead, it'd have to be a government decision to impose a license and yeah final management of the fishery would still have to be the responsibility of government on behalf of all the people. and yeah, i have no frikkin idea what research costs or even what it costs to run a body such as sunfish for a year.
i'm more commenting on the need for a body representing recreational anglers to be 100% funded by recreational anglers, instead of relying on money from various government funds with no real commitment from government to those funds, and that a fishing license is a method of generating that money directly from the people being represented. the problem i have with imposing levy's on all boat owners via rego or ramp charges is that not all boat owners are recreational anglers and that not all recreational anglers are boat owners and the two should be kept seperated.
anyways, it's all food for thought and it's just my take on the benefit of a fishing license for us all.