Billionaire Fisherman Is Part Female
Stunning gender bender news from the US Fish and Wildlife Service:
New Report Issued on Trout Fishing
USFWS News Release, June 21, 2010 [here]
An old and familiar Chinese proverb states “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” According to Anna Harris, an economist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, if a man has learned to fish for trout, he fished an average of 11 days a year in 2006, had an above average education, earned an above average income, spent $4.8 billion in pursuit of his prey, which generated $13.6 billion in economic output, and 25 percent of the time — he was a she.
These are only a few brief highlights contained in a more detailed economic report compiled by Harris, “Trout Fishing in 2006: A Demographic Description and Economic Analysis,” just released by the Service. The report is an addendum to the 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation published by the Service. … [more]
Note: Thanks for the news tip to Julie Kay Smithson, doyen youthful doyenne of Property Rights Research [here, here], and who claims to be a woman female 100% of the time.
Oh, and Mike … I’m not quite seasoned enough to be called a doyenne!
Reply: Sorry. I meant docent.
My only claims:
After all these years, it’s so much fun to enjoy being a kid, no matter what the calendar says!
I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up!
Age is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter!
My claim on womanhood is matched by the fifty percent of the time when I’m still a girl!