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Revenue From Fishing Licenses Could Benefit Youth Save Email Print
Posted: 8:47 PM Oct 12, 2008
Last Updated: 8:47 PM Oct 12, 2008

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The North Carolina Coastal Recreational Fishing License Advisory Committee has agreed that 12 of 19 programs requesting should get a grant.

Its recommendation goes to the state Marine Fisheries Commission, which meets in November.

The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va., reported that the state Wildlife Resources Commission also must sign off on the projects.

The advisory committee has collected about $7.9 million since the licenses were required as of Jan. 1, 2007.

After deducting costs for other obligations and fisheries projects, the fund has about $4.3 million.

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Posted by: VBush Location: MHCY on Oct 13, 2008 at 06:44 AM
This is just another TAX on our supposed freedom. Does anyone remember why our ancestors came here to begin with? TAXES! We are now taxed just to defecate. We are taxed all the way to the grave. Every time a new tax is generated it is always used in some other vein that what it was supposedly intended for. Disgusting! It is all B.S. perpetuated by lying crooked politicians and bureaucrats.

Posted by: Steve Location: Kinston on Oct 12, 2008 at 11:20 PM
Was this TAX supposed to go toward helping defray costs for marine and fishing regulatory functions? If it is not used for that,how about lowering the cost of a fishing license. Quit taking taxpayers' money and then using it for what it was not intended.

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