Economic Impacts of Freshwater Recreational Fishing in Mississippi and Alabama

Number of freshwater recreational fishing anglers

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Source of raw data: FWS (2013).

Number of freshwater recreational fishing trips

fwrft
Source of raw data: FWS (2013).

Total expenditures on freshwater recreational fishing

efwrft
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.