Last year, there were over 150,000 "sport fisher trips" A sport fisher trip = one person fishing one day. This study is from Alaska but it assesses a "value" to each sport trip. Using the methodology in the study, the least amount the spring fishery would generate directly would be over $5 millon dollars to the economy.
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The state of Oregon has set the value to the state of sports angling on the mainstem Columbia for spring chinook at $28 million dollars
The value of commercial fishing in the Columbia for the same fish was set at $925,000
Pretty huge difference huh?
I got these numbers from the lobbyist for ANWS and NSIA Phil Donavan.
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Re: The value of sports fishing to Oregon
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