Fish & Game looking for new fees!

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From the Concord Monitor:

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department wants to impose new fees on boaters and take a portion of the state's rooms and meals tax to ward off a five (m) million dollar budget shortfall.
The department, created in 1935, originally maintained game animal and fish stocks for hunters and fishermen. But its scope has expanded to encompass conservation of wetlands and open space, search and rescue, public education and the policing of off-highway recreational vehicles. Unlike most state departments, Fish and Game is self-supporting and must pay for its operations through fees paid mostly by hunters and anglers.
Fish and Game is proposing a ten dollar annual conservation decal for all non-motorized boats, which would net about one-point-five (m) million dollars a year. Charging salt-water anglers an annual fee and taking a cut of the rooms and meals tax would raise an additional five-point-six (m) million dollars.
Department officials hope lawmakers will introduce the proposals in the coming legislative session.