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Pier pressure

By James Swan
ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, August 17, 2009

There's something fishy going on out there, according to the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation. California has more sport fishermen than any other state — 2.4 million anglers. The USFWS, however, says that there were 1,578,000 California resident anglers and 152,000 nonresidents in 2006. They spent an average 11 days a year in piscatorial pursuits and collectively pumped $2,420,503,000 into the state economy. That's no sardines, folks. OK, so how do you explain the discrepancy of ne ...

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