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Committee backs one-year apprentice guide license allowing on-the-job experience
Summary
The New Hampshire House Fish and Game Committee unanimously recommended passage of SB 31 FN, which would create a one-year 'apprentice guide' license intended to let prospective hunting and fishing guides work under licensed guides before taking the full licensing test.
Senator Howard Pearl, the bill uthor, told the New Hampshire House Fish and Game Committee that SB 31 FN would create an "apprentice guide license." He said the Guides Association and New Hampshire Fish and Game developed the idea to give people a supervised, on-the-job chance to learn paperwork, record-keeping and guiding skills before taking the full guide exam.
"This is an act establishing a guide apprentice license," Senator Howard Pearl said when he opened the hearing. He told the committee the measure mirrors an existing hunting apprentice license and is intended to encourage more people to consider guiding as a profession.
The bill would let a candidate purchase…
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