Wow pretty interesting..how can you 'LIMIT' how many people enjoy an area?
So should the people who live near public or stateowned saltwater launches start saying the same? I personally dont think any town or community will try and limit the $$$$ that is put in a town during its peak season.If they do anything it will be a very low cost permit If people are going to spend $5,000..20,000 or whatever on a boat they will pay a measly $100.00 to use that boat..Now what do you do to people who rent a house there for a week or two?
The group this will hurt is the guys and gals who fish multiple lakes through out the season a few times a week they could be spending hundreds of dollars to fish.It isnt going to hurt the pleasure boaters as much..As far as tournies go and i am not to familiar with them but my educated guess would be that if a BASS club is going to come of from PA ill take a guess that when they apply for the permit to hold the event the town or association is NOT going to charge each boat a launch fee there will be a small fee added to the tournie entry there is no way they will charge $6,000 for 60 boats PLUS the permit..
Plus if the boats are cut way way down i would also think the home taxes will go up in order to make up for that revenue loss
I do hope that a solution can be brought forward to make both parties happy