NORTH AND WEST BAYS 
DAILY AVERAGE 
ST. ANDREW BAY 
DAILY AVERAGE 
EAST BAY 
DAILY AVERAGE 
° ° 
ES Oo 
°S 
wD 
COASTAL WATERS 
DAILY AVERAGE 
Figure 20:—Estimated average daily instantaneous numbers of transit private ski boats (dark) 
and occupants (light) by areas, weekdays (W), and weekend-days (E) each month in 1973. 
NORTH AND WEST BAYS 
DAILY AVERAGE 
ST. ANDREW 
BAY 
DAILY AVERAGE 
EAST BAY 
DAILY AVERAGE 
COASTAL WATERS 
DAILY AVERAGE 
Figure 21.—Estimated daily instantaneous numbers of transit charter boats (dark) and occu- 
pants (light) by areas, weekdays (W), and weekend-days (E) each month in 1973. 
each day. The larger party boats are licensed to carry a 
maximum of 90 persons, but usually limit the number of 
fishermen to about 70; a minimum of 15 fishermen is 
generally required by the boat operators. The average 
number of fishermen on party boats probably averages 
30-40 over the entire season. At a distance, party boats 
may be confused with commercial snapper boats, for the 
hull design is similar, otherwise there was little dif- 
ficulty assessing transit party boats. The estimated num- 
ber of transit party boats is shown in Figure 22. 
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COMMERCIAL FISHING 
Distribution of Effort 
From the results of the survey for commercial fishing 
effort, five commercial fisheries existed in the St. An- 
drew Bay system and adjacent coastal waters in 1973. 
Those fisheries, identical to the ones described under 
recreational fishing, were: shrimping for food or bait, oys- 
tering for food, finfish fishing for food or bait, scalloping 
