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New Hampshire Has Funding Shortages. Special Meeting Scheduled
Next Wednesday, February 7, 2007, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Commission will hold a special meeting at the Fish and Game headquarters in Concord. The meeting is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. and is open to the public. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss upcoming legislative issues facing the department.
I e-mailed Liza Poinier of the New Hampshire Fish and Game to find out if there was a particular reason for scheduling a special meeting prior to the regular one set for February 21. This is what she said.
Also with a little help in directions from Liza, I headed over to the NHFG website to take a look at some of the upcoming legislative proposals. Many of you already know that New Hampshire faces a shortfall in revenue to keep them afloat. They are looking at ways to better fund Fish and Game. I’ve addressed this issue before at the Black Bear Blog and have also contributed some ideas to the department of ways to deal with this.
One proposal deals with Fish and Game taking a portion of the lodging and meals tax revenue.
This would only seem a reasonable request however, greed is greed and when the general fund has been reaping the benefits of dollars generated through recreation, I have an idea Fish and Game is going to have a difficult time collecting any of that money.
Here’s another proposal.
Pay to play, that’s what most of us do. What hurts with this proposal is that there is a lot of overlap. In other words many people who hunt, fish, trap and pay for the licenses, also use canoes and kayaks. Perhaps there would be a way of assessing a fee to those who only use specific areas and are currently paying nothing for the benefit – a difficult proposition at best.
Here are several more for you to look over.
While most of these ideas make sense, there is bound to be big opposition from special interests and those believing their budgets will be shrunk and/or power taken away. Looking down through the list pretty much plays into the ideas I have submitted in the past with the exception of one thing. I propose a major overhaul of not only New Hampshire’s but many states so-called fish and game budgets.
The Fish and Game Department has morphed into a giant too big for its own good with much of the burden of paying for it falling on the shoulders of license buyers. More and more responsibilities have also been dumped in their laps with little or no money to fund it. Fish and game departments need to go back to doing what they are supposed to do, managing fish and wildlife and providing for the public to be able to hunt, fish and trap.
Search and rescue as well as policing off-road vehicles needs to be a law enforcement issue and managed and enforced by state and local police departments. The list of all this goes on.
What has happened over time is there are more and more people hiking, biking, wildlife viewing, boating, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, bird watching, etc., etc. who are not paying their share. License buyers cannot provide the funding for all the rest of the outdoor enthusiasts. Their demands are too great with no funding to meet those demands. Most all of these pastimes should not be funded by fish and game.
Many of these proposals in New Hampshire would provide a temporary funding problem but in the long haul, I believe a restructuring of departments and interests is overdue.
Tom Remington
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