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[email protected] JANUARY 14, 2004 More expensive to hunt, fi sh in state BY MEG FOX The Department of Fish and ocean and inland waters, went into $10 on a One-Day Sport Fishing Fishing License fee increased from In 1980, a California angler could Game said this is the fi rst “sweeping effect on Jan. 1. License that is valid in both inland $29.25 to $31.25. fi sh into a pants pocket for a fi ve- fee increase” since 1987, although Hunters will fork up their increase and ocean waters. The fees for commercial fi shing dollar bill, buy a license, and head the department has made fee on July 1. The Two-Day Sport Fishing licenses, commercial fi sh busi- to Hat Creek for a day – or season adjustments based on the state’s The DFG has eliminated the License, valid in all waters, is still nesses, guides, and aqua-culturists – of fi shing. cost-of-living increases. annual “Pacifi c Ocean Only” sport available but costs $15.75, an also went up on Jan. 1. By 1989, the state’s fi shing The new resident license fees fi shing license, which was $17.25, increase of more than $5. The fee increases were approved license fee had gone up to $18.75 represent a $2 increase for anglers and also the one-day “Pacifi c The annual Nonresident Sport by the state Legislature in August to and this year, fi shermen and hunt- and a $1.50 increase for hunters.