Wrong. The state legislature gave the fish commission the authority to set license fees in 2020. They used their new found, and unconstitutional authority, to raise the cost of a fishing license by a whooping $2.50.
I remember this clearly because I am staunchly opposed to giving the power to raise taxes to unelected bureaucrats. A fishing license is a tax and the power to tax is only constitutionally permitted by elected officials. This is how “we the people” are able to oppose unfair taxation, by being able to vote them in or out. We can’t vote the fish commission out so they shouldn’t have to authority to take any money from us. We just need our elected officials to do their jobs instead of building in bureaucracy's to hide behind.
