Comment on FR Doc # E8-13250

In regards to the proposal to license saltwater fishing in Massachusetts and surrounding states.I have been saltwater fishing for about 10 years now, and half of the enjoyment of it comes from the pure freedom. All one needs is a pole, beach and some bait. I have always been turned off to freshwater fishing because i like catching and eating striper as well as avoiding the hassle of obtaining and paying for a license. I personally have always followed the current regulations for minimum size of "keeper" fish and the amount of fish that one may keep. I think these regulations are fine, they keep people from removing young fish that will grow big someday or removing too many from a school, etc. As it is, its hard for one man to make these rules an issue because its already hard to catch even one fish, let alone a ten "keepers." Which is why i find this rule proposal completely frivolous. I do support the environmental concern of the NOAA, which should be funded somehow, but i do not support giving states an exemption for doing so. This sort of revenue for the state will be pressed into some slush fund or some other program. If a rule is passed, the NOAA must asert that the revenue from this measure is going solely towards data collection (apparently a fish census?) or to state environmental funding or research, not to Big Dig loan pay-offs, etc.