Thread: What's it worth??

Ok I see your guys point.
But the point that I'm trying to make is that if you take say the economic view of rugby and how every kid buys an all black shirt you will sort of see where I'm coming from...I hope. If not then just think of golf

So take the turn over of say Hunting and fishing stores NZ wide, Swazi, Heil Siki just an example of some of the industry's in NZ that would not be there if hunting was to no longer continue in NZ.

In the uk 600000 shoot.
Nearly two million hectares are actively managed as a result of shooting.
Shooting is worth two billion £ to the uk economy.
Shooters spend £2.5 billion on goods and services.
Shooters spend 3.9 work days on conservation and equivalent of 16000 full time jobs.
Shoot providers spend £250 million a year on conservation.

Yes the uk dose have a few more people but my point is look at those pound signs and your average person is not going to vote for something that you can see pays in so many good ways.

I pay 550 for my phesant shoot.
Around 1000 on ammo.
750 on clay shooting.
1000 on kit.
600 to 800 on petrol.
200 on flowers wife
Not sure how much on the dog food etc let's say nine 30kg bags of food a year. About 315
Around 70 odd hours of voluntary shoot work.
So that total comes to around 4200
3150 for the hours.
Now maybe you get the picture.

If we could get together and show how much we spend on the local economy we would have more power in parliament on issues like 1080 etc maybe

http://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/sci...cal/sfc140.pdf

Just read some of this. The guts of it is that they don't know what hunting is worth to the local economy.
But it must be a bit as we have 37 H&F stores, Gun city, Hamils, Ridgeline, etc still can't seem to get a decent goggle search on value turnover.
Anyone have some knowledge or idea? Cheers