Aunty -
I agree that the agency should look at the collection of those $10 penalities as mostly a one time windfall. One would think that once a carbber is dinged for that $10 they would either be more likely to remember the next year or drop out of the fishery.

Though one never really knows how folks will react. I remember during the 1980s when associated with a license increase there was a $5 rebate on your new steelhead punch card if you returned the previous. Even though folks complainted bitterly about the lic. increase only 20% of the steelhead punchcard holder bothered to turn in the old cards to get that $5.

Tight lines
Curt