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Re:Trout Tickling by mrguyorama on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:15AM (#17662650)
Are you sure? Fishing in my neck of the (American) woods requires a $25 license every year, and even the poorest families in my town get them, because it's just that profitable to supply yourself with fish for a whole year.

The money is used to protect the rivers and water bodies from foreign predators and pollution, so that those families can rely on this source of food for decades to come

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Re:Trout Tickling by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:25AM (#17662743)
Yes. Hunting/fishing rules/regulations in most of Europe reflect a society where (until recently) only the upper classes owned land and it was illegal for commoners to take any resource from that land without the permission of the landowner
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