Heating up on new fees

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I may not agree with the increase in fees, but I don't think this anonymous biologist knows his facts. Or perhaps he/she has some ax to grind. For one, the so-called monies he speaks of, that could be used for data research and analysis, come from the federal government which the Obama Administration has recently put mandates on, and has restricted the use by LDWF to the data it receives. Pausina has stated that a large part of the fee increase would be to replace the federal dollars that the state would no longer accept from the feds.

As for the money being used to possibly build saltwater hatcheries/research centers, that money has already been allocated from the BP settlement.

This is what I hate about anonymity: no way to cross-examine the "witness".