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Hunters, Anglers
Pay For Sport
People who hunted and fished last year spent a record $344 million on licenses, tags, permits and stamps, an increase of $15 million over fiscal year 1977 totals, and including $159 million for fishing licenses and $185 million for huntipg licenses. The revenues derived from these license sales enable states to conduct their fish and wildlife conservation and management programs.
In Virginia there were over 449 thousand paid hunting license holders and all of the licenses, tags, stamps and permits they purchased totalled over four million dollars. There were some 431 thousand licenses fishermen in Virginia in 1978 who paid over two million dollars in license and other fees to enjoy their sport.
The total number of hunting license holders in the United States was 16,277,225, up slightly from 16,197,015 in 1977. Fishing license holders declined from 27,324,396 in 1977 to 26,150.352 in 1978. Fish and Wildlife Service officials said that fluctuations in the number of hunting and fishing license holders are not unusual.
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