10-22-2019, 03:23 PM
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]I doubt seriously that the loss of fishing opportunities at one single fishing lake will have ANY measurable impact on the total number of fishing licenses sold. And we are talking about just one fishing lake - Scofield. People that fish will just fish elsewhere. They will NOT stop fishing just because a lake they fished has turned sour.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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I don't know of any way to verify whether your conclusion is correct or not, but I have a strong hunch that there are a lot of folks, who previously purchased fishing licenses, that have quit purchasing them because of the decline of Scofield over several years. It wasn't that long ago that Scofield was Utah's second most popular fishery. [url "http://www.utahfishinginfo.com/utahlakes/scofield.php"]Link[/url] You or I will pick up and go fish another body of water if catching at one body of water declines, but not everyone has that same mind set. [url "http://www.utahfishinginfo.com/utahlakes/scofield.php"][#000000][size 3] [/size][/#000000][/url]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]I doubt seriously that the loss of fishing opportunities at one single fishing lake will have ANY measurable impact on the total number of fishing licenses sold. And we are talking about just one fishing lake - Scofield. People that fish will just fish elsewhere. They will NOT stop fishing just because a lake they fished has turned sour.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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I don't know of any way to verify whether your conclusion is correct or not, but I have a strong hunch that there are a lot of folks, who previously purchased fishing licenses, that have quit purchasing them because of the decline of Scofield over several years. It wasn't that long ago that Scofield was Utah's second most popular fishery. [url "http://www.utahfishinginfo.com/utahlakes/scofield.php"]Link[/url] You or I will pick up and go fish another body of water if catching at one body of water declines, but not everyone has that same mind set. [url "http://www.utahfishinginfo.com/utahlakes/scofield.php"][#000000][size 3] [/size][/#000000][/url]
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