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Lynn A. Greenwalt, Director of the Interior Department’s United States Fish and Wildlife Service, has announced that “people who hunted and fished last year spent a record threehundred twenty-nine million dollars on licenses, tags, permits and stamps during Fiscal Year 1977 (July 1, 1976 through June 30, 1977).” The total income from license sales of all kinds was up by $10 million over FY 1976. This includes $156 million from the sale of fishing licenses (up by $1.56 million over 1976) and $172.8 million from the sale of hunting licenses (up by $9.2 million over the previous year).
Sales in Virginia totaled 725,725 for fishing licenses, tags, permits and stamps issued. Of this total, 70,309 were non-resident. This is in comparison to the state of Wisconsin, which recorded a total of 406,000 visitors who purchased licenses. California led the nation in the sale of fishing licenses with a whopping 5.3 million licenses, tags, permits and stamps sold.
Hunting license sales (of all types) in the Commonwealth totaled 903,020 of which 68,041 were in the nonresident category. In comparison, Pennsylvania, which led the country in total sales, recorded 1.9 million licenses, tags, permits and stamps
85.2%