That is about one-tenth of the typical annual take of 300,000 pounds before 1985, the year the abruptly appearing algae all but wiped out scallops.

By 2006, the annual take had fallen to around a million.

About 1.2 million or 31 percent of New Zealanders engage, at least occasionally, in recreational fishing with an annual recreational take of about 25,000 tonnes.

Last year, 40 percent of the studios' $6.9 billion annual take came in the weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

August Bequai, a Washington lawyer writing in "Techno-Crimes" (Lexington Books), estimates that the annual take of computer criminals could reach $5 billion a year.

In its best years, the Clef Club's annual take exceeded $100,000.

In 2004, Ireland's annual take was thought to be around $10 million.

It meant an eventual $20 billion increase in the annual take, largely from well-to-do taxpayers.

At the Sign Shop, which moved here in 1999, sales are off $20,000 from this time last year, a big hit on a total annual take of $130,000.