Shannon MacKay

As the parent of children who love to ice fish in the north country and we have our favorite small bait shops local to us. These shops would not be able to exist if they had to acquire their own bait by trapping/fishing from local streams and rivers. NH does not currently have hatcheries that have provide bait fish for sale thus making it so NH fisherman would have to acquire their bait fish from lakes, rivers and streams. Once this begins occurring on a larger level, there’s risk of overfishing. This is all completely unnecessary and need to continue to allow imported live baitfish from other states.