In 2024, the state recorded 199 license sales for non-resident firearms hunting and inland fishing permits. That number is up from 2023, when there were 189 non-resident combined license sales.

The same annual combination fishing license will cost nonresidents $170, and the same big -game license costs more than $1,300. Fees for hunting and fishing licenses hadn't risen since 2011.

Whitmer's budget proposes raising an extra $28.9 million by hiking hunting, fishing and watercraft fees. But getting details has been difficult.

New regulations from the Biden administration, in collaboration with environmentalists, would limit hunting and fishing in multiple states across the country. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is ...

Under the law, an annual resident combination fishing license will now cost $62.79. A big game hunting license that includes deer, elk, bear and cougar tags would cost a resident $117.30.

Sports Outdoors Hunting, fishing license costs increase on Tuesday June 27, 2025 Updated Fri., June 27, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. An angler casts a fly on Rocky Ford Creek near Ephrata, Wash., in this ...