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Do people in other countries really need licenses to fish, like actual permits that you have to take a course for?
I'm Norwegian and we have something called "Allemannsretten", which basically you can fish as much as you want wherever you want in the ocean for free without restrictions. However we need to buy licenses online or in stores for like $10 to fish in some lakes, and for salmon fishing in rivers, we need more expensive licenses, in addition a fee every year of about $30.
