TABLE 4. RECREATIONAL SALT-WATER SPORT FISHING REQUIREMENTS, SUPPLY, AND NEEDS 



(in millions of pounds of sport fishl annually) 



Major sport fish species consist of bluefish, striped bass, scup, winter 

 flounders, mackerel, and tautog. 



2 

 Requirements computed on basis of 4 pounds of sport fish per sport fishing 



day to provide a quality experience. Estimate is based on data in 1970 



Salt-Water Angling Survey and an assumed active sport fishing season of 



3 months (90 days). 



-^Supply total is estimated annual yield of sport fish species listed in note 

 1 (less the commercial catch) based on catch data for the North Atlantic region 

 as found in the 1970 Salt-Water Angling Survey. One quarter of the North 

 Atlantic catch of the species in note 1 was estimated to have been caught 

 in Long Island Sound. The estimate for the sustained annual yield is purely 

 an assumption based on the estimated catch for the Sound. No actual true data 

 exists for the sustained yield of sport fish populations. Distribution of 

 supply is assumed to be as follows: 80% in subregions 7, 8, 9; 5% in sub- 

 regions 2, 3 and 4, 5; 2% each in subregions 1 and 6b, 6c; and 1% in sub- 

 region 6a. Distribution percentages are based on the assumption that most 

 fish are caught in the cleaner waters of the Sound (i.e., the eastern end). 



Needs are deficiencies i.e. requirements less supply. Entries in parentheses 

 represent surpluses. Note that for 1970 the region as a whole shows a surplus, 

 but that most of the individual subregions are deficiento 



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