Phil,

That is one of the issues. No one has come forward to say how this will be enforced, nor have they said what the money will be used for. Transparency please. That is the major issue.

Park fees at Hol Chan help pay for rangers to keep out fishing, keep people and the reef safe. If the cost of the fishing license goes only to pay for someone in a boat to enforce it, then what use is it except to give one person a job?

No one is able to say where the licenses will be able to be purchased, from whom, or for what purpose they are being issued.

Do they apply to children? What about local fishermen who are out fishing every day? Do they have to pay?

All of the unanswered questions are the problem. This is not the first "fee" people have been asked to pay without explanation. A few years ago, residents with vehicles were instructed within one week that they had to appear in the old football field and pay a $10 fee for a "how's my driving" sticker with a phone number on it. I have called that phone number on numerous occasions and no one has ever answered. The "urgency" with which we were all called to action had no reason behind it, no follow through, and not a peep since. AND no one answers the phone number.

"What if" is a big question here about lots of things.

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