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Show Hunting, fishing license fees adjusted by state legislature When the 1967 fishing and hunting licenses go on sale next month, there will be several sev-eral changes evident as the Utah State Legislature passed House Bill 108 which raised the fees for resident and nonresident nonresi-dent licenses, changed the old upland game bird license to a small game license and lowered low-ered the age from 14 to 12 for juveniles to be eligible to purchase pur-chase this small game license. The license bill also established estab-lished a permanent fishing license li-cense for all residents who are blind, paraplegic, or otherwise permanently disabled for 50c and reduced the number of types of nonresident fishing licenses li-censes from 7 to 3 and allowed for a shorter term nonresident fishing license than was pre-viouslv pre-viouslv available. there will probably be fewer licenses li-censes sold this year thus reducing re-ducing the amount of additional addition-al money anticipated from the fee increase. The following is the new resident and nonresident license fee schedule: Resident Combination, 16 and over, $10; fishing, 16 and over, $5; fishing, 12 and under 16, $2; deer, 16 and over, $5; small game, 16 and over, $4.50; small game, 12 and under 16; $2.50; guide, $20; fishing, permanently disabled, $50; trapping, $6. Nonresident Fishing, 2-day) 12 and over, $2.50; fishing (5-day) 12 and over, $5; fishing (season), 12 and over, $15; deer, 16 and over, ov-er, $50; small game, 12 and over, $20. The increased revenue from the new fees is estimated at $800,000 for the fiscal year 1967-68. However, it is expected that there will be some resistance resis-tance to the fee increase and |