Commercial fishing industry is nearly 3x bigger, yet produces only 20% more in taxes?  Why not 3x as much? Because we give fish away.  The 2017 operating budget for commercial fishing is $70 million... so if they are only taking in $51 million, commercial fishing actually costs the state money?   Both generate a lot of money for the economy, no doubt about it, but to compare money generated by taxes for the state on a $/$ basis, its really not even close.