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"Recreation and Esthetics 



"Recreational uses of the waters of the Chesapeake Bay are 

 very poorly documented. Boating, swimming, skiing, beach- 

 ing, fishing and hunting are all increasing rapidly, but 

 reliable data are scarce. 



"Boat registration provides one helpful index. Maryland 

 salt water boat listings increased 33 percent from 1960 to 

 1966. Sixty-one thousand craft are registered, about 

 20,000 are not required to register and about 20,000 visit- 

 ing boats enter the Maryland portion of the Bay, for an 

 annual total of 100,000. Over 300 marinas serve these 

 boats. Virginia has a fleet of about the same size. 



"The Chesapeake is the focal point of the Atlantic flyway 

 for migratory waterfowl, and about 30 species of ducks, 

 geese and swans concentrate there in winter. These support 

 heavy hunting during the winter months. 



"Waste Disposal 



"The Baltimore-Washington metropolitan complex contained 

 3,771,000 people in 1960, with an expected doubling time of 

 25 years. While vast and expensive systems are under con- 

 struction for collection of the wastes from this population 

 and treatment to remove pathogenic bacteria and solids, 

 almost no attention is given to the effects of pouring 



