Fishing Licence — Age Exempts You, Service Does Not
The environment department publishes a $10 resident and $13 non-resident fishing licence, and exactly two exemptions: under 16, and 65 or older. No veteran exemption, no disabled veteran rate, no active duty concession.
Verified August 23, 2026
What this benefit is
The environment department publishes a $10 resident and $13 non-resident fishing licence, and exactly two exemptions: under 16, and 65 or older. No veteran exemption, no disabled veteran rate, no active duty concession.
What it's worth: No veteran concession — $10 resident, $13 non-resident
- The department publishes the resident licence at $10.00 and the non-resident licence at $13.00.
- The only exemptions the department names are persons under sixteen and persons sixty-five or older.
- No rating threshold, no discharge test and no active duty rate appears on the department’s page.
This record exists to correct a myth. A free or discounted fishing licence for disabled veterans is close to standard across this corpus, which is exactly why its absence here is worth publishing. The department’s exemption list has two entries and both are ages.
Who is entitled to it
- This record is about what a veteran pays for a fishing licence here.
- Your home is in this district.
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How to claim it
Deadline: Buy before you fish- 1Buy the ordinary licence. There is no service-based concession to ask for here.
- 2If you are 65 or older you need no licence at all, which is the only route to a free licence the department publishes.
- 3If you fish across a boundary, check the rules where you actually fish — several jurisdictions in this corpus do give a disabled veteran a free or reduced licence, and one of them may be a short drive away.
- File with
- Department of Energy and Environment — at the ordinary fee
- Annual
- Claimed once a year.
Sources
- authority · published policyDepartment of Energy and Environment — Get a Fishing Licence, fees and exemptions
Why only one source type: The department’s own licence page states both the fees and the complete exemption list. The underlying fisheries regulations were not read this session, which is why this is recorded at tier B rather than tier A.
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