New Decal Required

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Originally Posted by The Real BigGuy

Doesn’t Marine Patrol also patrol coastal “navigable” waters such as the Piscataqua River? Isn’t that why they bought the surplus CG surf boat a number of years ago? Not conforming to the new requirements (which I think are crazy) might require state to cede any authority in those areas to CG. However, this does seem to be an easy/lazy way to solve an accounting issue.

The impression I got from Dave Barret at the time was that the commissioners eyes glazed over when Homeland Security offered big bucks for NH to patrol our small section of the coast. That was the incentive to absorb MP into state police. Maine seems to have no problem telling where inland and coastal are differentiated. I think it makes sense for USCG to patrol the area around the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard. I expect they patrol the Kennebec River up to the Bath Iron Works where they build ships for the US Navy.