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Committee limits Internet sale of hunting, fishing licenses
Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
PIERRE, S.D. - State government should not be allowed to sell general hunting and fishing licenses on the Internet, a South Dakota Senate committee recommended Tuesday.
If the Game, Fish and Parks Department sells licenses directly on its Internet site, that discourages hunters and anglers [...]

Anglers’ fury at English ‘fishing tax’ imposed on Borders river
Scotsman - UK
Anglers’ fury at English ‘fishing tax’ imposed on Borders river
WILLIAM CHISHOLM
SCOTTISH rod fishermen yesterday warned of “angling anarchy” over the imposition of a new licence system by an English quango which has provoked a political row north of the Border.
It is [...]

Tokyo to fish near islands
Mari Yamaguchi
February 15, 2005
Japan will start fishing expeditions near a pair of East China Sea islands to strengthen its hand in a dispute with the mainland over the rights to natural resources in the area, officials said.
Fishermen in April will begin catching tuna near Okinotorishima, 1,730 kilometers [...]

Ban on autumn fishing could end
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Consider, if you can, that magic place where science and politics meet harmoniously, a kind of Neverland often imagined but seldom found.
At least for the nonce, such a place actually exists on the South Platte River where it wanders through the Tomahawk Ranch just upstream from [...]

Hundreds come out for ice fishing tournament
Capital News 9 - Albany,NY,USA
Many anglers have called Lake Champlain the mecca of ice fishing, so it’s no surprise that the New York State Ice Fishing Championship is being held there. Veteran anglers said the fishing has been great this year.
Howie Swan of Moriah said, “It’s been good [...]