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Show License Sales io Fishermen Show Increase National license sales to fishermen fish-ermen increased to a record level last year; but hunting license li-cense sales in 1972 declined from the record mark of 1971, according to the Interior Department's De-partment's Fish and Wildlife Service. In all, hunters and fishermen fisher-men spent more than $214 million mil-lion last year for licenses, tags, permits and stamps, an increase in-crease of $6 million from 1971. Fishing license holders increased in-creased by 271,053 to a new high of 26,022,547. Fishermen spent $107,045,535 for licenses, $7 million more than in 1971. Hunting license holders decreased de-creased by 675,084; the 1972 total is 15,298,243. Expenditures Expend-itures by hunters for licenses and permits, which exceeded $108 million in 1971, came to $107,310,803 last year. Licenses revenues enable states to carry out fish ami wildlife wild-life conservation and management manage-ment activities. Additional funds come from federal aid for fish and wildlife restoration programs, under which states are reimbursed up to 75 percent per-cent of die cost of approved projects. Utah had 230,582 paid hunting license holders in 1972. License sales, however, are not accurate ac-curate indicators of the actual numbers of hunters and fishermen. fisher-men. In Utah, one sportsman may purchase separate licenses, li-censes, stamps, perm its or tags for taking different kinds of fish and game. The total number of hunting licenses, tags, permits and stamps issued in Utah was 268.999, of which 29.795 were sold to nonresidents. The gross cost to hunters in Utah was $2,547,171. |