watch live The general game and habitat license is required for all hunting licenses except furbearer, nongame, spring light goose and early Canada goose. Nonresident waterfowl hunters also were up. Game and Fish sold 24,063 nonresident waterfowl licenses in 2020, up from 20,733 in 2019, department statistics show. The increase “is really not surprising, considering the Canadian border closure,” Steinwand said. “We actually anticipated a little bit more.” The five-year average for resident waterfowl hunters is 20,612. In terms of fishing, the department in 2020 saw an encouraging trend with 19- to 29-year-old anglers, Steinwand said, a demographic that had been declining in recent years. “That increased this year and particularly among females,” Steinwand said. “They just needed to get outside, they needed to do something. And it wasn’t, ‘Hey, let’s go party on the sandbars by the river.’ They actually went out and did some fishing. We’ve seen that on a lot of area lakes.”