I went to most of the RI License meetings held here in RI a few years back. If memory serves me right, we are doing a pretty good job in RI in getting the matching dollars we qaulify for thru the funds generated by commercial licesnes and fees and freshwater licenses.
If you want to review some of the info from those meetings check here - makes for less than interesting but infromative reading:
http://www.ci.uri.edu/Projects/rifis...creational.htm