By the numbers
When you compare spending by hunters and anglers to other sectors, their impact on the state’s economy is more evident.

• South Carolina sportsmen support more   jobs than Computer Sciences Corp., Siemens Diesel Manufacturing, the University of South Carolina and BMW  Manufacturing combined (32,700 jobs vs. 28,500).

• Annual spending by South Carolina   sportsmen is higher than annual spending   by Greenville-based ScanSource, one of   the largest companies in the state ($1.8 billion vs. $1.7 billion).

• South Carolina sportsmen annually spend   more than the cash receipts from broiler   chickens, greenhouse/nursery, turkeys,   cattle and cotton production, which are   the state’s top five agricultural commodities   $1.8 billion vs. $1.3 billion).

• South Carolina sportsmen outnumber the populations of Columbia, Charleston, Rock Hill, Mt. Pleasant, Greenville, Sumter and Spartanburg (595,000 vs. 562,000).

• The economic stimulus of hunting and fishing equates to $4.8 million a day being pumped into the state’s economy.

Nationally, the numbers are equally impressive:
• Sportsmen support more than twice the jobs in Texas than Dell Computer Corp., Lockheed Martin, Electronic Data Systems and Dow Chemical Co. combined (106,000 vs. 49,000).

• Sportsmen support more jobs in Florida than Disney World (85,000 jobs vs. 61,000).

• Pennsylvania sportsmen outnumber the combined populations of Allentown, Erie, Pittsburgh, Reading and Scranton two to one (1.4 million vs. 680,297).

• Michigan sportsmen annually spend more than the combined cash receipts for dairy, greenhouse/nursery, corn, soybeans and   cattle, the state’s top five agricultural commodities ($3.4 billion vs. $2.9 billion).

• Annual spending by Florida anglers is three times greater than the cash receipts from the state’s orange crop ($4.4 billion vs. 1.2 billion).

• Annual spending by Wisconsin sportsmen is equal to the revenues of the state’s dairy industry ($3.1 billion).

• Annual spending by California sportsmen   is greater than the cash receipts of the   state’s grape crop ($3.6 billion vs. $3 billion).

Source: Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation