Senior Fishing License

PennyPA wrote:
In most of the states, the money from licenses goes to the Fish and Wildlife departments. I still say it's better to get some money than no money. If states choose not to join the program, that's their prerogative.

This is the same argument I see all the time about RV site fees. It isn't that simple. If you cut the fees in half, you would need to sell twice as many licenses to get exactly the same amount of money. The number of people who do not buy an out of state fishing license but would if the price was $25 instead of $50 is probably a very small percentage. I seriously doubt a state would sell 10% more licenses with lower fees and can see no way they would double the number of licenses sold and if they don't double sales, overall revenues would go down. Fishing license fees are just not a significant part of a travel budget. People are either going to buy one or not, the cost is not much of a factor to most people.