IV-191 



TABLE IV. 3. 10 

 Estimated Participation in Boating-Narragansett Bay 



1965 



Based on estimates of a 600,000 population over 12 years of age in 

 Rhode Island. 



Source: "The 1965 Survey of Outdoor Recreation," Bureau of Out- 

 door Recreation, U. S. Department of the Interior, October, 1967 

 pp 45-52 



Sport Fishing 



Saltwater sport fishing is an extremely popular use of Narragansett 

 Bay and adjacent waters. About thirty-eight percent of boating 

 time on Narragansett Bay and adjacent waters is allocated to sport 

 fishing, and there is considerable fishing from shore. This takes 

 place primarily in four types of areas: from bridges that cross 

 streams feeding into the Bay or connecting the Bay with other 

 smaller estuaries; from the breakwaters on piers that jut out into 

 Bay; along the rocky shoreline in the southern part of the Bay; and 

 the sandy beaches at the end of the swimming season which coincides 

 with the fall runs of.Blueflsh and Striped Bass. 



