Ron DeSantis: “Fishing, boating, fishing, we're number one in the country.”

“But if that were to be the case, and we get through another year without having any type of tropical impacts that'd be really, really good for the state of Florida. So we'll see. We'll see on all that. But Fishing, boating, fishing, we're number one in the country. It's not even really close with this. It's important to the economy. We're $31 billion annually from the impact of recreational boating. That's a 53% increase from eight years ago.” (02:50–02:55)

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