Just some interesting tibits I read in a magazine...
1)Fishermen spend $5.3 Billion a year on equipment
2)$4.3 Billion on food
3)Lodging... $2 Billion
4) $1.1 Billion on JUST BAIT!!!
5) On the Ice...378 million
-Sport fishing industry supplies over 1 million jobs, more then U.S. Postal service (803,000) or United Postal Service (408,000)
-Sport fishing pulls in 10 TIMES the revenues of U.S. comercial seafood landings ($42 billion vs $4 billion)
Information is from.
Cabela's outfitter journal!