This bound-ary was extended to 50 miles in the South 

 Atlantic and Gulf from May through October. In 

 addition, sonne counties on the Pacific coast inland of 

 the 25 mile zone were included as they represented 

 metropol i t i an areas that contained fishernnen known to go 

 saltwater sportfishing. 



Coas to I res i den t : 



A fishernrxin who lived in a coastal county included in 

 the telephone/household survey. 



Coastal State: 



A State bordering on the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, the 

 Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean Sea. State also 

 includes a Territory or Corrmo nwe a I t h . 



Fishery Management Plan (FMP) : 



A plan developed by a Regional Fishery Managennent 

 Council to manage a fishery resource pursuant to the 

 Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 

 1976. 



F i sh i ng site: 



Fishing site refers to the name and location of the 

 place where fishermen were intercepted. Each intercept 

 site was given a unique name and code number. The 

 fishing site did not define the mode of fishing since 

 fishermen may have used different nnodes at any one site 



F i sh i ng trip: 



Fishing during part or all of one day in one mode. A 

 fisherman who fished from both a pier and jetty on the 

 some day nnade one fishing trip since the pier and jetty 

 are both man-made structures. However, a fisherman who 

 fished from a party boat in the nnorning and from a pier 

 in the afternoon is counted as having made two fishing 

 trips--a party boat trip and a man-made structure trip. 



Hour s f i shed : 



The amount of time a fisherman actively fished in a mode 

 with his gear in the water. If a fisherman spent time 

 fishing at other sites on the same day, that time was 



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