Table 3.28. Estimated percent of population that engages in sportfishing and hunting according to various 

 studies in the United States and Louisiana. 



Activity 



United States 



Urban 



Rural 



West-south 

 central 



Statewide 



Louisiana 



Coastal 

 parishes 



Calcasieu 



Cameron &: 



Vermilion 



parishes 



Sportfishing 

 Freshwater 

 SjJtwater 



12.3^ 



25.5" 



27.4" 



26° 

 55^ 

 30^^ 



23' 



19.4" 



Hunting (overall) 

 Small game 

 Big game 

 Waterfowl 



13. r 



11.3^ 

 35^ 

 23'' 

 21'^ 



15.7° 



*Fish and Wildlife Service 1972 

 b 



U.S. Army Corps Engineers unpublished. 

 ''Louisiana State Parks and Recreation Commission 1974. 

 '^Based on Louisiana fishing and hunting license sales (1970); increased by 21% to adjust for hunters and fishermen younger 



than 16 years, and older than 59 years. 



Table 3.29. Total fishing and hunting license sales for Calcasieu, Cameron, and Vermilion 

 parishes, 1967 through 1975^. 



Year 



Fishing 



Resident 



Non- 

 resident 



Hunting 



Resident 



Non- 

 resident 



1967-68 



1968-69'' 



1969-70 



1970-71 



1971-72 



1972-73 



1973-74 



1974-75 



29,502 

 12,124 

 34,577 

 31,040 

 30,091 

 29,733 

 35,231 

 38,726 



492 

 454 

 526 

 458 

 425 

 398 

 576 

 809 



23,535 

 23,508 

 24,189 

 25,652 

 23,277 

 23,837 

 23,020 

 23,086 



2,095 

 1,741 

 2,162 

 2,849 

 2,882 

 3,162 

 2,799 

 2,792 



^his three-parish area had 187,126 residents 5 years of age or older, State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) 

 1974. This represents 5.4% of the State population. 

 The second year of a two-year licensing experiment was dropped at the end of this period. 



Hunting : Table 3.30 summarizes the man-days of 

 use related to wildlife in the Louisiana coastal zone, 

 from the Fish and Wildlife Study (U.S. Amiy Engineers 

 unpublished) telephone survey conducted in 1968. 

 The table shows that the per capita usage rate in the 

 Chenier Plain was higlier tlian the usage rate for the 



entire Louisiana coast. The study indicated a relatively 

 high frequency of "nonconsumptive" wild life -oriented 

 recreation (bird watching and recreational boating). 

 The total estimated wildlife-oriented recreational use 

 for the southwestern part of the State was 2.75 man- 

 days/individual/year. 



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