donw1964@gmail.com

I'm a military retiree, and a citizen of the UNITED STATES. I'm a resident of the State of Florida, and I paid for an annual fishing license in Florida. Then, because we were spending 3 weeks in Colorado this summer 2013, I paid them their $66 for another annual license. They only sell very short-term licenses so it made sense to just shoot the wad on an annual license. The real irony for me is that most of the fishing I've been doing has been in national parks and forests, stocked by UNITED STATES fisheries. I just went to visit the Hotchkiss NATIONAL fish hatchery near the Gunnison river. I still haven't seen a Colorado hatchery. What am I paying $66 for? I've also bought a temporary license in Arkansas on this trip, and did most of my fishing in lakes that aren't even stocked by the state. Why should there be any fee to fish where it doesn't cost the citizenry any money? So some game warden can have his badge and his paycheck? What's next, city and county fishing licenses? And another thing, if the Florida Fish and Wildlife storm troopers would burn less gas in their go fast boats tearing around like they're on Baywatch, we could probably save enough money to lower the cost of fishing licenses. It's not like Florida Fish and Game stocks the Gulf of Mexico. What am I paying for??? In my not so humble opinion as a citizen of this great country, not a citizen of any state, a fishing license bought in one state should be good as gold in any other. Period. Just like driver's licenses. Fishing licenses should also only be required where there's a demonstrable cost to the taxpayer to maintain the fishery. So yes, please FMCA, put whatever weight you have behind this quest.