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Show Sportsmen Spent 4 Million In Utah for Licenses WASHINGTON - Hunters and fishermen spent $3,934, 375 in Utah last year for licenses, lic-enses, tags, permits and stamps, according to the Department De-partment of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, Rep, Sherman P.. Lloyd, R-Utah, said today. Nationwide, sportsmen spent over $208 million' for licences last year, an increase of near- ' ly $16 million over the pre-ious pre-ious year according to Lloyd. Hunting license holders in Utah totaled 240,367 during 1971 and fishing license holders hold-ers totaled 367,588 during the past year. "License sales are not ac- curate indicators of tlie actual act-ual number of hunters and fishermen because most states sta-tes have regulations that require re-quire sportsmen to purchase 5eparate licenses, stamps, permits or tags' for taking different' dif-ferent' types of fish and game," Lloyd said. The gross cost to hunters in Utah for licenses in 1971 was . $2,319,928 with 250,155 resident licenses and 23,041 nonresident licenses being issued during the year. Fishermen spent $1,614,447 in Utah on licenses during 1971. Resident licenses totaled total-ed 272,658 and non-resident licenses 97,973, Lloyd Said. License revenues enable States to carry out fish and wildlife conservation and management activities. Additional Ad-ditional funds come from Federal Aid in Fish and Wildlife Wild-life Restoration programs, under which States are reimbursed reim-bursed up to 75 percent of the cost of approved pre-grams, pre-grams, Lloyd said. -The Utah Congresman said that State Fish and Game departments de-partments certify the numbers num-bers of paid hunting and fishing fish-ing license holders to the Fish and Wildlife Service, which uses them in determining determin-ing Restoration Fund allocations. alloca-tions. For the current fiscal year, which ends June 33. $47,890,000 was apportioned. The total number of hunting hunt-ing license holders in the nation na-tion rose to almost 16 million an increase of 607,570 over 1970. Expenditures by hunters hunt-ers for licenses and permits reached a new high of $108, 597,570, Lloyd said. |
