New Computer Licenses Draw Questions

January 6, 2011

Question: For generations, our family has bought annual hunting and fishing licenses and then proudly saved each license over the years as collectable pieces of our family history. Why after so many years have you chosen to discontinue these traditional style licenses in favor of just computer printouts?

Answer: While many may miss the traditional style licenses, this new computer system enables the Department of Fish and Game (DFG to) maintain an accurate and complete customer license database. It ensures everyone is licensed correctly, customers can quickly retrieve their license information to replace lost licenses and annual renewals will be much easier.

It also reduces fraud and the official license sent from DFG is actually much less destructible than the more ornate licenses of the past.

Best of all, for most anglers (and soon hunters) using this new computer system, they can purchase annual and short-term licenses, privileges and harvest/report cards online from their home computers. Only the licenses and privileges can be printed and used immediately though. They have to wait to receive the actual tags and harvest/report cards in the mail before engaging in the activity.