I've had customers do the smart phone thing when already 20 miles off shore.
Even in Cabo this winter licenses are sold only on line. Vender sitting on the sidewalk with a laptop and printer. You could also go to a machine, much like a bank machine, in the mall and get it there.
There's a new business venture for someone. Machine at the end of every dock!
It would be so much easier if they just do what they do in N & S Carolina and Florida....the boat owner pays an annual fee and anyone who fishes off that boat is automatically licensed. The operator then adds a per person fee to recover the annual cost. Here the captain would still have to record catch info and who caught it but it would be so much more efficient to just be able to hop on and go without the headaches. The boat is issued a sticker so enforcement people know they don't have to check licenses, they can just check limits.
I have the laptop and a rocket stick with TELUS for when we are traveling, and am plugged into power at the dock so we just need a cheap printer. The only problem I can foresee is my phone sometimes roams to the USA from the dock at a cost of $3 per minute so I will have to watch out for that.
Also the cost of a license will be going up to cover the rocket stick costs along with additional equipment
YES i hear ya Rollie was thinking the same thing THE only thing I can see doing is taking the laptop or get one for the boat and a wireless modem down with one of those 99 buck wireless printers to cover our butt??? As Doug mentioned at 5:30 am what do you do as I have personally said to clients "MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A LICENCE" only to see them show up without one......
At our dock it is the same problem, no service or roaming to US. How many minutes of airtime to fill out and print 4 licenses online Doug? What happens if the call is dropped part way through the process? Start over!! It's a friggen nightmare and a system forced in by people back east who have never bought a license in the first place.
For the average person who buys a single license once a year from home it is just fine, but far from perfect for us.
Another issue is the requirement that to Halibut fish at Swiftsure, a non resident has to have a license bought in Canada. All look the same now. In fact the system keeps your info. and prints the same license from any computer. So does the license for a non resident Halibut fishing in the restricted area need to have the receipt stapled to it to show where it was purchased?
Another issue is the requirement that to Halibut fish at Swiftsure, a non resident has to have a license bought in Canada. All look the same now. In fact the system keeps your info. and prints the same license from any computer. So does the license for a non resident Halibut fishing in the restricted area need to have the receipt stapled to it to show where it was purchased?
Non-residents of Canada wishing to fish for and retain halibut in Management
Areas 121, 23 and 123 must purchase an electronic licence through a Canadian
vendor.
The 2014/2015 Tidal Waters Sport Fishing Licences will be available
electronically in mid to late March. Further updates on Tidal Waters Sport
Fishing Licences will be provided as information becomes available.
I don't know what the rules are for "Canadian Vendors" are but seems to me you would have to check that out to comply. Can you take the info over the phone and email the pdf to your client? Can it only be done in person? Seems like they put the cart in front of the horse by not having everything worked out first. Well they did say more information is coming..... the DFO ground troops know this is an issue and I suspect they are shaking their heads too. It's what happens when you cut the budgets and redirect the money away from fishing to other pie in the sky projects. After all we are paying large for new ships and everything around Kitimat for you know who.
The one printed by a Canadian Vendor is exactly the same as one printed on a home computer in Canada or in Seattle. Their (DFO) program needs to indicate if a Canadian Vendor is the source or they should require a receipt from the vendor attached.
There is a bar code and registration number printed on the license perhaps that will tell the officer it's source. Emailing pdf's across the border sounds like a good way to lose your right to sell licenses if your caught.
Don't like it one bit, also not a conservative--just a realist that has seen that those who support the gov't in power seem to get the favors--Those who support Elizabeth May and Chief Theresa will likely get------
I had a conversation with the DFO representative at the boat show on Sat. She indicated that it would somehow be marked on the license that it was purchased through a Canadian vendor and that this was determined by the IP of the vendor.
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