07-20-2013, 01:35 AM
I'm sorry, I've had severe insomnia this whole summer and i'm starting to feel really sick and trying to think like this isn't helping. I thought long and hard about this so if I'm wrong I'm sorry but tell me what you think of this.
Since we're talking about fishing license prices then the two important numbers for 2012 was that $62,567,767 million was collected and 30,612,743 million of that came from fishing licenses.
The site you listed shows the expenses by program and classification but doesn't really say where fish stocking falls/ exactly how much is spent on that. If we go back to my article that said specifically in 2010 that it was 3.62 per lb of fish, and doing the math we spent 4,979,135.97 $ that whole year for the stocking. Now this is 2012 we're talking about but honestly the numbers would have to be fairly similar.
So if we go back to the 30,612,743 million from fishing licenses and if only 4,979,135.97 of that was used towards stocking( it should be similar to 2010), then an 8$ increase is definitely not needed to maintain our current amount of stocking. Am I wrong? Cause I'm seriously not trying to mislead anyone.
I guess if people would be okay for it going towards stuff like research then it'd be good but I think most of us are mainly interesting in maintaining stocking rates/amounts.
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Since we're talking about fishing license prices then the two important numbers for 2012 was that $62,567,767 million was collected and 30,612,743 million of that came from fishing licenses.
The site you listed shows the expenses by program and classification but doesn't really say where fish stocking falls/ exactly how much is spent on that. If we go back to my article that said specifically in 2010 that it was 3.62 per lb of fish, and doing the math we spent 4,979,135.97 $ that whole year for the stocking. Now this is 2012 we're talking about but honestly the numbers would have to be fairly similar.
So if we go back to the 30,612,743 million from fishing licenses and if only 4,979,135.97 of that was used towards stocking( it should be similar to 2010), then an 8$ increase is definitely not needed to maintain our current amount of stocking. Am I wrong? Cause I'm seriously not trying to mislead anyone.
I guess if people would be okay for it going towards stuff like research then it'd be good but I think most of us are mainly interesting in maintaining stocking rates/amounts.
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