Million dollars, weight

At the present time, there are only three approved beaches from which razor clams may be harvested for commercial purposes. These are Swikshak, Polly Creek, and the Cordova area. It is estimated that these three beaches alone represent a potential annual harvest of one million pounds (shell weight) and a minimum of two million dollars on the wholesale market. 

Chopra [2] gives the intercity weight (in millions of tons) and distance (in billions of ton-miles) capacities, freight expenses (in billions of dollars) and revenue (cents per ton-mile) in US shown in Table 2.8. 

There are arguments for and against whichever units are used but we have chosen to standardize on tonnes for weight (tonnes), degrees centigrade for temperature (°C), and atmospheres for pressure (atm). Both pounds sterling ( ) and U.S. dollars ( ) are used for monetary values because of the volatility of their exchange rates over the last two decades. Billions are U.S. billions, i.e. one thousand millions. 

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