re: why pay the $50. what's the cca really do with that money?

I am not going to get heavily into this topic but giving money to CCA provides funds to hire people who monitor anything and everything that has a regulatory impact on fishing, etc. CCA pays them to flag any new legislation that is trying to be forced through or passed without public knowledge. They have people that just sit and read all new proprosal for this purpose. CCA will flag them and then bring them up to the proper individuals. I bet you didnt know that an individual from New Orleans attached a gill net approval to a bill not related and this was caught and shot down. These are the things that people like you never hear of and the reason you never hear anything about it is because it is tabled or declined before the public even knows. Fishing resources are always under siege. They provide a necessary service so that we still have a resource to fish.