Hunting for hunters
Thinning ranks may weaken economy, environment
Leo Roth
Staff writer
(November 4, 2007) - Dale Statt of Honeoye Falls, a 35-year-old
mother of two boys, married into a family of hunters.
When she took to the field for the first time with her husband,
Leigh, eight years ago, she loved it. Last year Statt bagged a
9-point buck, and she's looking forward to the start of shotgun
season for whitetails in New York state's Southern Zone in two
weeks.
"It's a wonderful sport. My husband has taught me so much about
it, and we look forward to teaching our kids," said Statt, who is
an executive administrative assistant for Fibertech Networks.
"We have a separate freezer for our venison. We eat more venison
than beef."
While the Statts eagerly look forward to another hunting season,
surveys and license sales continue to show that the American
hunter is an endangered species. Fewer younger people are taking
up the sport and more adults are leaving it.
Concerns rise
More than 87 million U.S. citizens age 16 or older fished,
hunted or watched wildlife in 2006, spending more than $120
billion, according to the U.S.
Fish & Wildlife Service survey of wildlife-associated recreation
conducted every five years. The figures are from a preliminary
report. The final report will be issued this month. While these
figures represent a still robust hunting industry making a
profound impact on the economy, the total number of hunters
nationwide has slid from a peak of 19.1 million in 1975 to
12.5 million. In 2006, New York state ranked sixth in the number
of resident and nonresident hunters at 576,000 and ninth in
hunting-related expenditures, at $683
million. Those numbers are down from 714,000 and $822 million in
2001.
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