ORIGINAL: ButchA
Cornelius.... I have some free time this morning (since I'm off work) to do some comparisons, for whatever its worth:
Pennsylvania
Land size: 46,055 sq miles.
Population: 12,488,279.
Total # of sportsmen: 1.4 million
(hunting & fishing, resident & non-resident combined)
2008 deer harvest: 335,840
Money spent by sportsmen: $3.5 billion to support 51,000 jobs.
Virginia
Land size: 42,774 sq miles.
Population: 7,769,089
Total # of sportsmen: 857,000 (hunting & fishing, resident & non-resident combined)
2008 deer harvest: 253,678
Money spent by sportsmen: $1.3 billion to support 24,000 jobs.
Edit: yano, I think I know you!
Yano don't know exactly how long VA's Point of Sale system has been in place. I do think it's somewhere between 2 to 5 years, but don't know exactly.
What Yano would really like to know is:
1. The total number of VA Hunters in 2008. I seem to remember seeing either a 350k or 250k number floating around somewhere, but I looked high and low and can't find a definate number.
2. What is the source of your "sportsman data" in your post on PA's and VA's numbers?
I must have ol Al K. Hall to thank for my great memory, hey?
