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Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) is a state agency of
Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the O ...
, headquartered in
Little Rock, Arkansas ( The "Little Rock") , government_type = Council-manager , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Frank Scott Jr. , leader_party = D , leader_title2 = Council , leader_name2 ...
. Steve N. Wilson of
Norfork, Arkansas Norfork is a city in Baxter County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 550 at the 2010 census. Geography Norfork is located at (36.209506, -92.281702). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of wh ...
joined the agency in 1968 and became its director in 1979. He resigned in 2000 and died in 2021. In 2016, Jeff Crow took director position of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Bryan Hendricks of the ''
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell. It is distributed for sale in all 75 of Arkansas' counties. By virtue of one of ...
'' that Wilson "molded the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission into the organization it is today". In Arkansas, outdoor recreation produces more than 4.9 million dollars a day. In 2020 the agency passed additional rules regarding fishing, both for pleasure and for commercial operations.


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Comparing Appropriations and Operationsfor the 2017-2019 Bienniumwith requests for the 2019-21 Biennium


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