John H wrote:
The way I read the information, anyone on a boat, including guests, must
register if they think they may catch a striped bass in Chesapeake Bay, or any
of the other places mentioned.

This is some genuine horse****.

Must be some Obama crap. Or is this Bush's fault too?

https://www.countmyfish.noaa.gov/faq_registry.html#23
Fish in any State that touches the oceans you have to have register.
It is just a matter of time til the extrapolate that to mean all streams
etc since they all run to the oceans.
Required registration to fish or a Federal Fishing License. NOAA isn't
going to learn a damned thing.
Follow the money.
Do they think I'm going to answer the phone about some fish I didn't
catch or ate last year?