Total Sales and Employment Impacts of the Hunting Sector in the Gulf of Mexico States

The number of hunters in the Gulf of Mexico states are shown below:

hunters
Source of raw data: FWS (2013).

The number of hunting trips in the Gulf of Mexico states are shown below:

hunting
Source of raw data: FWS (2013).

The total economic impact is the sum of direct, indirect and induced impacts.

  1. Indirect impacts result from changes in economic activity of other industrial sectors which supply goods or services to the sector being evaluated.
  2. Induced impacts are the result of personal consumption expenditures by industry employees.