The Big Picture

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is a self-supporting agency. Currently, the Department uses revenue from fishing and hunting license fees, federal funds and other sources to accomplish its broad mission of conserving, managing and protecting the state’s fish, wildlife and marine resources and their habitats; informing and educating the public; and providing opportunities for people to use and appreciate these resources. As the charts below show, Fish and Game’s budget sustains the full range of habitat and fish and wildlife management tasks, plus conservation education, law enforcement, search and rescue and support work. All of these are essential to ensure that the Department can effectively serve the wildlife and people of New Hampshire.

Where the money comes from
Revenues for FY2010 budget (total of $25,965,319)*

 
Where the money goes
Expenditures from FY2010 budget*

*The fine print: What do all those numbers and categories mean?

License Fee Revenue: Includes all resident and nonresident fishing and hunting licenses received for Fiscal Year 2010.

Other Miscellaneous Unrestricted Revenues: Includes court and license agent fines and penalties, sales of surplus property, miscellaneous sales, and interest earnings.  Actual receipts of miscellaneous unrestricted revenues were $1,160,397.  The remaining balance of $838,505 to fund total expenditures was taken from the surplus in the Fish and Game Fund.

Total Expenditures of the Fish and Game fund for Fiscal Year 2010 per year-end Monthly Statement of Appropriation by Office is $26,743,513, included within this amount is $778,194 of inter-fund expenditure reimbursements.  Net result of expenditures for fiscal year 2010 is $25,965,319

Other Agency Income: $5 Boat surcharge - $390,663; $1 Search & Rescue surcharge on boat, OHRV and snowmobile registrations - $223,661; Nongame donations and program income -$317,510; State General Fund match for Nongame - $50,000; Conservation License Plate Funds - $195,257; Miscellaneous donations and income - $462,153.

Federal Funds: Sport Fish Restoration Act (Dingell-Johnson and the Wallop-Breaux Amendment) for inland fisheries management, boat access and aquatic resources education - $3,426,245; Wildlife Restoration Act (Pittman-Robertson) for wildlife management and hunter education - $1,978,880; Landowner Incentive Program - $305,573; State Wildlife Grants – $652,932; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for marine fisheries management, the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve program and marine law enforcement - $761,138;  Joint Enforcement Agreement – $220,103; other Federal sources - $641,245.