If lawmakers don't approve higher license fees for hunters and anglers, "we will have to start cutting programs essentially right after session," DNR commissioner Tom Landwehr tells MPR.
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The 85-year-old former Minnesota Vikings coach urged lawmakers to raise license fees to help today's hunters and anglers, and a Senate committee unanimously passed a bill to do just that.
The state's Game and Fish Fund could be in the red by next year if nothing changes, a fact that has some lawmakers looking to raise license fees as they try to scrounge up the cash to fight invaders like Asian carp and zebra mussels.
A coalition of groups are urging lawmakers to raise license fees for hunting, fishing and boating. The fees that support the state's Game and Fish Fund haven't gone up since 2001, and the fund will dip into the red by 2013 without more cash flowing in.
The agency says the state's Game and Fish Fund is headed for insolvency. The Duluth News Tribune reports there may be support in the Legislature to raise fees on fishing and hunting licenses during the upcoming session.
The DNR is closing two zones to moose hunters but will allow limited bull-hunting in others. The agency has been reviewing the rules as the moose population continues to fall. The state is issuing fewer than 90 permits this year.
Anglers fishing on Mille Lacs Lake this year can keep walleye less than 17 inches in length. That's a change from last year rules, which allowed anglers to keep walleye under 18 inches. The DNR expects the fishing to be good this year. "The winter bite was good. The open water bite should be very good, too," said fisheries chief Dirk Peterson.
Republican Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen says Gov. Dayton and other supporters have to find the Democratic votes to support the plan or he won't reopen the debate. The bill, which has some bipartisan support, would raise license fees for hunters and anglers in order to keep Minnesota's dwindling Game and Fish Fund afloat and prevent layoffs and other cutbacks. A discussion about the bill ended abruptly after a 39-27 vote to reject it.
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