The Economics of Alabama Anglers
The Economic Impact of Anglers and Hunters in Alabama
| Category |
Number/Value |
| Resident Alabama Anglers |
628,000*
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| Alabama Hunters |
312,000*
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| Total Expenditures |
$702 million*
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| Total Jobs |
36,000**
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| Salaries and Wages |
$105 million**
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Ripple Effect on the Economy
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$3.25 billion**
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State Tax Revenue Information
Sportsmen in Alabama pay $105.2 million in state sales tax, fuel tax, and income taxes. That could pay 2,937 teachers' salaries or fund 17535 students' annual education costs. Management of fish and wildlife resources receive no General Fund money. Fishing licenses, hunting licenses and excise taxes pay for the management of fish and wildlife resources.
Jobs
**Sportsmen support 7 times more jobs in Alabma than Auburn University (33,338 jobs vs. 5,300 jobs).
Perspective
*Nearly one of every five Alabama residents hunt or fish.
**Annual spending in Alabama by recreational anglers is 13 times more than the cash receipts from the state's commercial seafood landings ($858 million vs. $64 million).
**Annually, Alabama sportsmen spend four and a half times more than the cash receipts for cattle and calves, the second leading agricultural commodity in Alabama ($1.7 billion vs. $363 million).
**Alabama anglers and hunters outnumber the combined populations of Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, and Huntsville, the state's four most populated cities ($1.02 milliion vs. 917,000).
(The figure is less that the number of anglers plus the number of hunters because many both hunt and fish.)
*One in four Alabama anglers are non-residents, but 94% of the days spent fishing were by residents fishing.
* Numbers for population 16 years old and older from the 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, US Fish and Wildlife Service.
 **Numbers provided courtesy of the Congressional Sportsmens Foundation (202-543-6850) who works on behalf of current and future generations of Americans to protect the right and increase the opportunity to hunt, trap and fish by serving as the sportsmen's link to Congress.
The 2001 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation is available from the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
**Sportsmen in Alabama pay $105,200,000 in state sales, fuel and income taxes, enough to pay 2,937 teachers' salaries or fund 17,535 students' annual education costs. State general fund money is NOT used to manage fish and wildlife in Alabama. Fishing and hunting license sales and federal excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment are used to fund fish and wildlife management.
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