Letters/Online Comments

Re: SB 187: Questions Abound About Fishing License Bill’s Failure (Oct. 20-Nov. 2 issue) Pass the bill already! Members of the state legislature: I have been licensed as a broker with the California Bureau of Real Estate since 1989. My license is active from Dec. 3 and expires on Dec. 2 – four years later. All real estate licenses are for a non-calendar period. Thus, when I pay $300 for a license, I get $300 worth of time to use the license. Driver’s license, auto registration and a number of other licenses are based on a non-calendar period as well, all providing full value when fees are paid. Common sense says a fishing license should be good for a non-calendar year as well, right? But it’s not. The fishing license I purchased in July gave me half the value of those who purchased their license in January. Does that seem fair? For whatever reason, SB 187 won’t get passed to solve this fishing license discrimination issue. There’s been no opposition to the bill and the recreational fishing industry has been slowly whittling away over the years. One reason is the fishing license fee structure. Don’t you people have any common sense? For Pete’s sake, pass the damn...