Your Permit Dollars At Work

When you purchase a recreational saltwater permit, we're putting that money right back into funding projects, programs, and research that benefit saltwater fishing across coastal Massachusetts. Here are just a few of the ways that permit sales support recreational fisheries.

Public Access

Improving your fishing options

• Develops and maintains large fishing piers
• Funds small projects improving or repairing existing access sites
• Funds the deployment of dedicated recreational artificial reefs

Opening of the Salem Willows Fishing Pier  Learn more about saltwater fishing public access  Artificial reefs in Massachusetts 

Angler Education

Creating new angling families

• Provides free family-friendly clinics for beginner anglers
• Develops educational angler resources in both English and Spanish

Learn more about the Saltwater Angler Education Program  Take Me Saltwater Fishing Video Series  Saltwater coloring books and educational activities 

Research and Conservation

Supporting science for healthy fisheries

• Funds research that informs recreational fisheries management, including discard mortality studies
• Funds research to understand how recreational species use our environment
• Supports river herring population management and restoration work. More food for more gamefish!

Striped Bass Research 

Improved Recreational Catch Data

Managing fisheries for our future

• Increases the sample size for the Marine Recreational Information Program's Access Point Angler Intercept Survey 

Learn more about the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP)