The state of Maine is going to give free noncommercial lobster fishing licenses to disabled veterans.

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills says she has signed a bill that will provide the licenses, as well as noncommercial crab fishing and scalloping licenses, without charge.

Democratic Rep. Allison Hepler of Woolwich, who proposed the law change, said the free licenses are “a small token of the state’s deep appreciation for all that our disabled service members have sacrificed.”