Fish and Game funding crisis often portrayed as a financial issue. In reality, it’s a political one.

By: Weldon Bosworth

Outlets: NH Bulletin

Published: July 13, 2026

Words: 722

Last Updated: 1 week, 2 days ago

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For nearly two decades, New Hampshire has studied the Fish and Game Department’s funding and governance problems, identified practical solutions, and then failed to implement them. The department’s current financial crisis was not inevitable — it was both predictable and preventable.

Since the Legislative Performance Audit and Oversight Committee in 2008, the SB 48 Commission to Study the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Fish and Game Department Operations in 2018, and most recently the SB 542 …

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