Staffing, spending, and funding of state inland fisheries programs.

摘要

In 2001, 41 state fish and wildlife agencies in the USA employed 5.6 to 416.0 full-time permanent employees responsible for inland fisheries programmes. An average of 35.6% were assigned to sport fisheries management, 31.7% were responsible for fish production and distribution, 6.8% conducted research, 5.4% were administrators, 5.2% provided secretarial and clerical services, 3.9% dealt with environmental services and concerns, 2.9% furnished aquatic education, 2.5% created motorboat and angler access, 2.0% manipulated aquatic habitat, and 1.1% managed nongame, threatened, and endangered fisheries. Inland fisheries programmes spent $432 000 to $39 276 052 annually, financed primarily with a combination of fishing, hunting, and trapping licence, permit, and stamp revenues and Sport Fish Restoration apportionments. For each state, inland fisheries programme employees and expenditures were compared to predicted values from a model that considered income generated by fishing licences, permits, and stamps; anglers; angler days; economic output from fresh water and great lakes sport fishing; and square miles of inland and Great Lakes water. The calculated residuals for full-time employees and expenditures could serve as a tool to evaluate the delivery of a state's inland fisheries programme and identify areas that might receive greater or lesser emphasis.