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The Economic Impact of Recreational Boating and Fishing in the Delta
George Goldman - Bruce McWilliams - Vijay Pradhan - Cheryl Brown
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Recreation in the Delta
The 1996 Delta Boating and Fishing Surveys Boater and Angler Characteristics and Activities Boater and Angler Recreation in the Delta - The Economy of the Delta Region
- Recreation Expenditures
- The Input-Output Model
- Economic Impacts of Recreational Boating and Fishing in the Delta
Submitted August 1998
Printed November 1998
The Authors
- George Goldman is a Cooperative Extension Economist with the University of California Cooperative Extension, in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley.
- Bruce McWilliams is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley.
- Vijay Pradhan is a Senior Statistician with the University of California Cooperative Extension, in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley.
- Cheryl Brown is a Assistant Professor in the Department of Agriculture, Southeast Missouri State University.
This study was funded by the California Department of Boating and Waterways. The authors thank them and the Delta Protection Commission for their support during the study.
The authors wish to thank Dave Cox, California Parks and Recreation; Margit Aramburu, Delta Protection Commission; and Don Waltz , California Boating and Waterways, for their help in preparing this study.
Maps and picture courtesy of the Department of Water Resources and the Delta Protection Commission; maps from the Delta Atlas and the Land Use and Resource Management Plan for the Primary Zone of the Delta.