Fish and Game warns sweeping dedicated accounts and proposed admin fee would create multimillion-dollar shortfall

Apr 29, 2025

New Hampshire Fish and Game Director Stephanie Simic told the Senate committee that House budget language would sweep or reassign dedicated-account balances into the Fish and Game Fund and add a 5% administrative fee to certain dedicated accounts. She warned those moves would disrupt federal funding matches, risk a fund deficit of about $2.5

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Stephanie Simic, director of New Hampshire Fish and Game, testified to the Senate committee about several House budget provisions that the agency said would materially affect its finances and program operations.

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