New York Governor Proposes More Fishing Fees

New York Gov. Paterson's budget calls for marine license, trout and salmon stampALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Fishing off New York's coast would no longer be free and casting your line for trout and salmon would cost more if lawmakers back Gov. David Paterson's plan for new conservation fees next year.
The administration's budget proposal contains a new marine fishing license for saltwater that would cost the same as the current freshwater license -- $19 a year for a state resident. A new mandatory trout and salmon stamp would cost $10.
New York sportsmen, already unhappy about the state closing its last pheasant breeding farm, want to be sure any new fees go to the Conservation Fund dedicated to restocking fish and protecting marine resources.

"I think that if we were assured that the $10 stamp, that money would go to a dedicated fund just for hatcheries, our members would take it in stride," said Harold Palmer, president of the New York State Conservation Council, which counts more than 300,000 members through clubs and county federations.
While they knew the federal government wanted coastal states to start registering all ocean fishermen -- a plan federal officials have delayed to 2010 -- Palmer said the New York saltwater fee proposal was a surprise. It would mean that fishing on the Hudson River below the Troy dam, a 150-mile saltwater estuary, would require a license, he said.

Holders of the state's lifetime sportsmen and fishing licenses apparently would be affected, Palmer said, though the proposed law hasn't been introduced yet and some details aren't available.
Conservation officers are already on the water around Long Island and New York City, checking on marine resources and fish market. Palmer said his organization plans to lobby lawmakers to consider a single license for both freshwater and saltwater fishing, or whether a freshwater license could be used on the Hudson north of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
Budget officials project adding $3 million from each new fee to strapped state accounts in fiscal 2009-2010, expecting $4 million from the trout stamp and $6 million from the marine fishing license the following fiscal year.
"To allow conservation activities to be supported by users, this budget creates a new marine fishing license and a trout and salmon stamp to support the Conservation Fund," according to Paterson's Executive Budget.Fees also would rise at campgrounds, cabins, golf courses and marinas operated by the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
No increases were proposed for state hunting licenses next year or at the Department of Environmental Conservation's camping areas in the Forest Preserve.

However, hunters were already upset that Paterson closed the last remaining state-operated farm where about 25,000 adult pheasants were raised annually for release in hunting areas around the state.
"The sportsmen were never involved in any talks about closing it down," Palmer said, though they pay about $40 million annually to the state for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses. "And there's no talks about any birds being released this coming year."
Paterson said the 9,000 breeding birds with clipped wings would be slaughtered and sent to food pantries, and closing the farm outside Ithaca would save the state $750,000 a year.
Raising pheasants was introduced in the 1920s, and there were once six farms, the program mainly supported with hunter license fees, Palmer said. About 60,000 other chicks were given to 4H programs and prisons to raise, he said.


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