Game and Fish makes a pitch for license fee increases Game and Fish makes a pitch for license fee increases April 16, 202112:42 pm The Game and Fish Commission has begun actively promoting hunting and fishing license fee increases to cope with burgeoning maintenance needs. If you don’t hunt or fish, you might not know that licenses for those activities haven’t risen since 1990 and 1984, respectively. The agency has made up operating costs from its share of the 1996 conservation sales tax. Advertisement The fees are currently $10.50 for a fishing license and $25 for a hunting license. A pending bill would allow an increase of up to 65 percent of the fee beginning this year and lasting through 2026, with another 25 percent allowed then, and 25 percent more in 2031. That bill got a do-pass in a Senate committee this week but then was returned to the committee for more consideration.