Ever wonder where all those license fees and tax dollars go? Ultimately, they go back in the water.
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Every time you buy a fishing rod, a boat, or an engine or fuel for that boat, you help manage the fish you are trying to catch, enhance your own fishing opportunities and access, and help introduce newcomers to the sport. When you buy a fishing license, you contribute even more to those worthy causes. Here’s how: Fishing clinics and camps, stock enhancement and
Under the more than 60-year-old federal Sportfish Restoration Program, manufacturers
artificial reefs are just some of the programs that Sport
and importers of fishing-related items pay the U.S. government excise taxes, which are then
Fish Restoration Funds support. Photos: FWC.
passed along to you at the cash register.
