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Recreational And Angler Survey Of The Buffalo National River, Arkansas, James E. Johnson
Recreational And Angler Survey Of The Buffalo National River, Arkansas, James E. Johnson
Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
The Buffalo River in northern Arkansas was surveyed for recreator and angler use in 1991 and 1992. The river was divided into three reaches and numbers of boats, recreators, anglers, and catches were compiled by creel clerks at nine selected take-out points. Outfitter rental receipts were used to estimate rental boats, and the proportion of rental to private boats creeled was used to correct for private boats not counted on the rental receipts. A total of 1,656 boats containing 3,071 recreators was contracted by the creel clerks during 1991 and 1992; 9.2% of the recreators were anglers. Expansion of the …