JF Griffin - Index

JF Griffin - magazine - Index

How and wHere
your license dollars are spent
26%
Hatchery Operations
Both warmwater and coldwater hatcheries
are included in hatchery operations. Major
cost areas, beside personnel, include feed,
fertilizer, fuel, vehicles, and electricity.
11%
Streams
Monitoring and management of
stream and river fisheries.
5%
Land Acquisition
Provides access to public
waters where access is severely
limited. It also purchases land
for hatchery expansion.
14%
27%
Reservoirs
Reservoir costs include
sampling, habitat
improvement,
and creel surveys on most
major reservoirs in Tennessee.
Hatchery Improvements
Hatchery improvements include major
projects to either repair existing facilities
or construct new facilities (ponds and
raceways) for increased production of fish to
stock in Tennessee waters.
2%
Research
Provides our fisheries scientists
the information needed to better
manage the fisheries resources in
Tennessee and the anglers that
utilize them.
6%
Community Lakes
Includes all TWRA agency lakes,
technical advice for pond owners,
including private, county and city ponds
and lakes. State Park lakes management
and fishing events for kids are also in
this program.
2%
Fish Acquisition
Provides funding to purchase catfish
and trout from private hatcheries for
spring and summer kid’s events and
winter trout stocking programs.
Show Your Support
with a twra
LicenSe pLate!
Money from the sale of specialty
plates is available to the TWRA to
fund wildlife habitat protection and
enhancement programs, provide
public hunting and fishing access,
support law enforcement efforts, and
improve youth education projects.
TWRA’s smallmouth bass license
plate is available at county clerk’s
offices throughout the state. This
plate features a smallmouth bass
created by renowned wildlife artist
Al Agnew from a print titled “Sunlight
on Bronze”.
As with other specialty license plates
such as the ones mentioned above,
the new smallmouth bass plate will
cost $35.00 above the regular cost
of registering a vehicle.
2008 Fishing Guide 7