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Posted on 03/19/2012 |
Turn your Massachusetts $10 fishing license into $500 of taxpayer money. The federal government is paying Massachusetts sport fishermen to give up their fishing licenses for a year.
Federal officials tell The Boston Globe (article) that the offer isn't about reducing fishing, but is part of an experiment to calculate the loss if an environmental disaster forced sport fishing to stop.
The survey (pdf), conducted by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Scott Steinback, a NOAA economist who came up with the idea , is intended to measure the worth of recreational saltwater fishing to the estimated 1.2 million residents and visitors who do it annually.
As part of the $145,000 survey, 500 fishermen are being offered from $15 to $500 to give up their license for a year, 700 will get a hypothetical cash offer and 700 will be asked if they'd be willing to pay another amount for the $10 fishing permit.
Read more here and here. |
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