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Recreation 



Each kind of recreational use has its own economic impact. 

 Recreational boating supports a large boatbuilding, marina, and 

 boat repair industry. Sport fishing supports not only a certain 

 part of the boating industries, but also a very specialized industry 

 manufacturing and selling fishing tackle. For example, the 1965 

 Survey of Fishinn and Hunting shows that salt-water anglers spent 

 $800 million dollars in that year. Sightseeing and swimminn support 

 motel and restaurant services in the favored areas, as do other over- 

 night recreational activities. 



Attempts at the quantification of overall recreational economic 

 values are not yet well-developed. The user-day recreation benefits 

 approach has been used in some federal waterway and reservoir projects, 

 but has been used in the estuarine system only in an analysis of 

 fisheries and recreation in San Francisco Bay. Net benefits for 

 general recreation activities, by this method, range from $0.50 to 

 $1.50 per day. Specific forms of recreation may have hioher values. 



Applying such a figure to the population of the coastal counties 

 suggests that the value of the recreational resource of the estuarine 

 zone is about 300 million dollars if each person has about five days 

 of recreational use. Such an estimate would include only local use 

 and no multiplier values and might therefore be regarded as minimum 

 value of the entire value of the entire estuarine recreation resource. 



