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swwit
at Sat Mar 15 08:34:53 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by swwit ]
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>>Let’s assume that both commercial and recreational collectors spend $100 a day on collecting trips. Let’s also assume that recreational collectors make one trip per year for about 10 days. This means that a recreational collector will spend about $1000 dollars on a 10 day trip. With 100 recreational collectors spending $1000 on each trip, the total comes to $100,000 spent in local economies for the year by recreational collectors.
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>>Now, the commercial collector spends probably about 20 days a month in the field. Collectors hunt from March until October, which is 8 months out of the year. So 8 months times 20 days equal a total of 160 days. At $100 a day this would be $16,000 dollars a year spent by each commercial collector. Our 10 commercial collectors would spend $160,000 dollars in local economies each year. This is $60,000 more than the recreational collectors.
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>>Since commercial collectors use their earnings to pay their living expenses this means that 10 families will have food and a place to live. This stimulates and contributes to the economy where they live.
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>>Let’s review. In this scenario, recreational herpers collect twice as many animals as do the commercial folks. The commercial folks contribute $60,000 more then do the recreational folks into local economies each year.
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>>>>Mike Welker
>>El Paso, TX
The problem with your financial numbers is that most "recreational" collectors spend more than that if they're out of staters. If they are, try closer to $150-$200 a day when you factor in all the costs over 10 days. That's a lot of money to spend with no guarantee of finding your target species.
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Steve W.
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