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June 22, 2003
Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle
The DFG money sponge: The current price for a fishing license for residents of the Bay Area is $30.70, along with the $3.70 striped bass stamp, making it $34.40, the highest priced license in America. In the back rooms of Sacramento, the DFG wants to add a $5 stamp for the Bay-Delta (for which the DFG does not have a spending plan), on top of an annual automatic increase for what they call the inflation index (yeah, right). If approved, next year's license could cost just under $40.
-- Now get this, Part I: A five-year license in Florida, which has comparable (if not better) freshwater and saltwater fishing, and better state fishing programs than in California, costs $60 -- that is, $12 per year.
-- Now get this, Part II: Lifetime licenses for both fishing and hunting in West Virginia, including three deer tags per year, for a child under 2 costs $280. In California, it costs $600, with an additional charge of $19.25 per year for two deer tags, or another $481.25 (not adjusted for increases) for 25 years of hunting. That makes the real price about $1,100, four times the price of West Virginia, for an experience that is hardly four times as good (and in many cases, is worse).
Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle
The DFG money sponge: The current price for a fishing license for residents of the Bay Area is $30.70, along with the $3.70 striped bass stamp, making it $34.40, the highest priced license in America. In the back rooms of Sacramento, the DFG wants to add a $5 stamp for the Bay-Delta (for which the DFG does not have a spending plan), on top of an annual automatic increase for what they call the inflation index (yeah, right). If approved, next year's license could cost just under $40.
-- Now get this, Part I: A five-year license in Florida, which has comparable (if not better) freshwater and saltwater fishing, and better state fishing programs than in California, costs $60 -- that is, $12 per year.
-- Now get this, Part II: Lifetime licenses for both fishing and hunting in West Virginia, including three deer tags per year, for a child under 2 costs $280. In California, it costs $600, with an additional charge of $19.25 per year for two deer tags, or another $481.25 (not adjusted for increases) for 25 years of hunting. That makes the real price about $1,100, four times the price of West Virginia, for an experience that is hardly four times as good (and in many cases, is worse).
