Show State Has Tougher Fishing Licenses and licenses for this year are probably the toughest we've ever had in claims Doug Pay of the Division of Wildlife THE ASSISTANT Chief of Fiscal and Accounting for the Division said the licenses are made of a special material that appears as paper but is very difficult to tear by License agents support the durability claim by stating that even the perforations are hard to Many must use scissors to separate a purchased license from the sales SPORTSMEN will find no perforations in their combination or big game license this Deer tags must be cut from the license with a knife when a deer is ready for Removing the notches to validate the tag must also be done with a Accidental separation of the tag from license will not worry hunters this WASHING machines may be frustrated by the new license Accidental washing has probably destroyed more licenses anything else over the The license itself should survive the but whether the Ink will last is yet to be don't float my license sunk like a one unhappy fisher-woman when she applied for a Wind blew it from her hand and it sunk in Flaming Gorge even before she could make an appropriate Hunters and fisherman spent more than million last year for permits and an increase of million over the previous reports the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife FISHING license holders increased by from 1970 to a record in Fisherman spent for licenses million more than in Hunting license holders rose to an increase of over Expenditures by hunters for licenses and permits exceeded the 1970 total by nearly million for a new high of LICENSE revenues enable states to carry out fish and wildlife conservation and management Additional funds come from sportsmen through taxes and hunting and fishing These taxes make possible the Federal Aid in Fish and Wildlife Restoration under which states are reimbursed up to 75 percent of the cost of approved FOR THE current fiscal which ends June Utah received of the which was apportioned to the states and |