Excerpt frora report hy n.5. Fisii ^nd .-.ildlife :;;er\-ice., •."'ctober 195C 



CONCLUSIONS 

 lo According to published statistics of the Fish and Wildlife Ser- 

 vice j, the value of marine fish landed commercially in Rhode lalaM 

 was $4^302,000 in 1954o A significant pc»rtion of this prodx^.ction came 

 from Narragansett Bayo A personal interi^iew survey of about 5*000 sport 

 fishermen on Narragansett Bay during the summer of 1956 indicated that 

 this fishery represents an important segment of the total marine spcrt 

 fishery of Rhode Islando The 1955 report o^f the New England=New York 

 Inter-Agency Committee showed an estimated annual expendityxe of 

 $39 024^,375 for marine sport fishing in Rhode Islando Further analysis 

 of data collected on the Narragansett Bay sport fishing is expected 

 to indicate that a substantial portion cf these totaJL lihode Island ex- 

 penditures are related to this Bay fisheryo 



2o Narragansett Bay as a hatching and nursery area for i'arioue species 

 of finfishes contributes stocks to the ocean i'ishery lyxng cratsxde the 

 Bayo The magnitude of the contribution may be greatj, and should be 

 determined prior to barrier const rue tiono 



3o The work completed thus far provides a valuable assessment of pre- 

 project conditions of a segment of the tlsherjo Theee data will be 

 of considerable value for comparative purposes whenever the need arises 

 for a postproject inventory foUovring the installation of control bar- 

 riers o 



4o The inventories conducted thus far are basic to deterirdning the ef- 

 fects of the control barriers en the fisheryo Additional studies will 

 be required prior to the construction of the control barriers to ,sesure 



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