Presentations from the
7th Annual OFWIM Conference
Baltimore, Maryland
November 1st-5th, 2002

Integrating Automated License Systems and Biological Data (Singel, IAFWA)

State fish and wildlife agencies are increasingly automating sales of hunting and fishing licenses using Point-of-Sale (POS), telephone, and Internet technologies. The benefits of license automation outweigh any startup costs, if any are applied. Many private industries have the ability to automate a state's licensing systems for no up-front costs. This is making these technologies and customer service tools available to every state, even those with small budgets. Fish and wildlife agencies are just beginning to realize the value their central database can hold. Is it appropriate to extend the data management capabilities inherent in automated licensing to resource management? The next generation of information management in state fish and wildlife agencies should include seamless integration of biological and administrative data such as license information. Biologists could more efficiently make resource management decisions by applying license data to management data. Some states are already starting to apply this concept in the first generation of data integration; moreover, administrators can use marketing principles to influence the retention of customers to increase revenue for agency programs and resource management.

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