1,000,000 



g 800,000 



» 600,000 



£ 400,000 

 "o 



I 200,000 



z 



Numbers of fish 

 Weight in pounds 



Summer 



Fall 



Spring 



Figure 14. — Estimated sport fishery catch. Cape Canaveral 

 Area; 1963 spring, summer, and fall totals, all species 

 combined, all facilities combined, in numbers of fish 

 and weight in pounds. 



FISHING EFFORT 



Table 54 presents estimated sport fishery- 

 effort in numbers of fishermen and hours 

 fished by sections, by facility, by month. It is 

 obvious that about half of the fishermen in the 

 Southern Section are in the category "bridges 

 and causeways" and about one quarter of them 

 are in the "boat fishery." Over a third of the 

 fishermen in the Northern Section are in the 

 category "bank fishery," and a little less than 

 a third are in the "boat fishery." In total, 

 approximately 56 percent of the fishermen in 

 the Cape Canaveral Area fished in the Southern 

 Section and 44 percent in the Northern Section 

 (monthly totals, by section, show higher nunn- 

 bers in the NorthernSection thanin the Southern 

 Section for the months of February, March, 

 April, and October, see figure 1 5 and table 54), 

 The monthly estimates of numbers of fishermen 

 during March to October varied between about 

 55,000 and 86,000 (February figures are incom- 

 plete). 



Concerning total hours fished in the Southern 

 Section, "bridges and causeways" fishery ac- 

 counted for a little less than half, and the 

 "boat fishery" for a little more than one- 

 quarter (table 54). In the Northern Section, 

 the "boat fishery" accounted for a little over 



5I*. — Estimated sport fishery effort in numbers of fishennen and hours fished. Cape Canaveral Area, February-October 1963; by 



section, by facility, by month 



Combined total 



83,610 315,670 



86,050 321,788 



72,061* 271,71*5 



61,971* 226,252 605,1*1*7 2,197,983 



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