here is the trickle effect of the subsidizing.

Pretty damn good bargain for the state and our economy.

Surecatch ,I do undertand those are public numbers and available to everyone.
I have been involved with this discussion before and if I am not mistaken those large expendatures involve some other funding that is not associated directly to the WDFW.
Take this with a grain of salt because I do not remember the entire discussion we were having and I am no means an accountant. It was like a 70/30 split. The numbers that you show do not collaborate that, so I am not sure what we were talking about.
Hopefully this thread will fuel some good discussion about it.

The below facts were from the CSF


http://www.sportsmenslink.org/Sportman/

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Washington State

Hunters 227000
Anglers 938,000
Total Expenditures $1.4 billion
Total Jobs 23000
Salaries and Wages $600 million
State Tax Revenue $95 million
Ripple Effect on the State Economy $2.41 billion
STATE TAX REVENUE INFORMATION
Sportsmen in Washington annually pay $95.2 million in state sales and fuel taxes – this could pay 2,471 teachers' salaries or fund the annual education expenses for 14,650 students.

JOBS
Sportsmen support more jobs in Washington than Microsoft Corporation (22,766 vs. 20,000).




TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
Twice as many Washington residents hunt or fish each year as attend Seattle Seahawk games (1.02 million* vs. 508,367).
One of every six Washington residents hunt or fish.
Washington sportsmen annually spend 10 times more than the value of the state's commercial seafood landings ($1.4 billion vs. $134 million).
Washington sportsmen annually spend nearly twice as much as the cash receipts from the state's apple crop ($1.4 billion vs. $806 million).
* The figure for sportsmen is less than the combined number of hunters and anglers because a respondent who is both a hunter and an angler is counted in each category above