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The Demand for Maine Resident Hunting and Fishing Licenses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Stephen D. Reiling ,
Alan S. Kezis  and
Gregory K. White
Stephen D. Reiling
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maine at Orono, Maine
Alan S. Kezis
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maine at Orono, Maine
Gregory K. White
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maine at Orono, Maine
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The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is currently in the throes of a budgetary crisis. Negotiated employee salary increases and the general inflationary trend of the 1970's have resulted in significant increases in operating costs. The Department, like many of its counterpart agencies in other states, is funded primarily from dedicated revenues collected from the sale of hunting and fishing licenses. Since there are no built-in adjustments for inflation in license fees, as there are in sales taxes or even income taxes. Department revenues have not kept pace with costs. As a result, the Department is projecting a budget deficit of around one million dollars for FY 1980–81.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , October 1980 , pp. 27 - 31
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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