I found this on another site. "Studies sponsored by Idaho State, WAshington state, the Canadian Government, and many other such entities have shown that the economy is much better served by recreational rather than commercial fisheries. These studies show that the number of fish it takes to support one commercial job could be supporting anywhere from 10 to 50 jobs if the resource was managed as a pure recreational fishery." So we could cut the harvest in half and have more jobs.

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Bruce,

Can you post a link to that site?

It was on a competitors site so I don't want to post it. It was in one of the messages. I would really like to see the studies that statement was drawn from.

Here is one site but not with that quote. www.tpwd.state.tx.us/conserve/sb1/econom/econsportfish/econsportfish.html


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Here two: www.amrivers.org/mm/fishing198.html
http://www.asafishing.org/economic/methods.htm

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And another: http://www.asafishing.org/economic/index.cfm?state=WASHINGTON