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Originally Posted by Broad Bill

You missed my point. 60% of the apportionment factor for each state is based on how many freshwater and saltwater combined licenses each state has in relationship to all other states. If all 138,000 saltwater registrants bought a saltwater license in New jersey, New Jersey still would've been below the 1% minimum level and would receive exactly the same amount they did or $399k. In other words, saltwater licenses in New Jersey because of the overall number of licensed anglers the state has relative to other states would have zero impact on the funds we receive.

I agree based on what I've read that ramp access is something these funds are used for from the standpoint of upkeep and accessibility. Not really sure what you mean by "if no available land is available, they pay for the use of ramps that are available".

Nj claims 175000 are involved in the SW registry .
But say 1.2 million fish our marine waters yearly .
Most of those fishing on head boats and charter boats apparently aren’t in the registry for there to be such a difference in those numbers .
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What I’m saying about the ramps is in many states they buy an access point .
In Nj their us very little available land , so keeping a free access point would be them paying for an already existing Ramps services .

These funds are all based on providing us better access and improving current conditions .

A few states like Nj actually tried to have this fine away with because they didn’t want to be forced to have to improve our access to the outdoors .
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The excise tax from PR and DJ were supposed to protect our user interests in the outdoors .

We should be trying to get every penny available .

When this came up at a FG meeting a bunch of years ago it was asked would they get money to enforce the licenses and additional officers to cover areas better .
They were told No and totally stopped the license in its tracks .
The free registry didn’t meet the federal guidelines to be used for an actual. Count of those using our marine waters .

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