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<blockquote data-quote="Apres" data-source="post: 219247" data-attributes="member: 846"><p>ND is trying to be an opportunity fishing state. They advertise the fishing heavily in those states because they want the out of state anglers money. Drive thru the twin cities sometime and you'll see a bunch of billboards for devils lake. Those dollars keep a lot of the small towns in the area alive. I think they could probably raise it a little to $50 or so but if it gets to $75 a lot less people will come, directly hurting many of our smaller towns. Outdoor rec supports 32K jobs in ND lower that by 25% and that's 8000 jobs we'd lose and how many small towns would disappear? I think I saw one time the average non-res spends $1000 here every week. There's a tradeoff to be had less non-res money means, less stocking, less opportunity, worse fishing. There is always a place to go where you can find a great bite and never see anyone else if the non-res are there chances are it was better last year and is time to find next years hot spot.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Apres, post: 219247, member: 846"] ND is trying to be an opportunity fishing state. They advertise the fishing heavily in those states because they want the out of state anglers money. Drive thru the twin cities sometime and you'll see a bunch of billboards for devils lake. Those dollars keep a lot of the small towns in the area alive. I think they could probably raise it a little to $50 or so but if it gets to $75 a lot less people will come, directly hurting many of our smaller towns. Outdoor rec supports 32K jobs in ND lower that by 25% and that's 8000 jobs we'd lose and how many small towns would disappear? I think I saw one time the average non-res spends $1000 here every week. There's a tradeoff to be had less non-res money means, less stocking, less opportunity, worse fishing. There is always a place to go where you can find a great bite and never see anyone else if the non-res are there chances are it was better last year and is time to find next years hot spot. [/QUOTE]

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