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<br /> <br />The Missouri Basin is favored by having some very fine trout fishing <br />streams, many of which have national reputations. It also has extensive <br />areas which are useful for wildlife. Currently, there are about 28 million <br />fisherman-days being enjoyed in the basin, and it is estimated that this <br />will increase to over 70 million by 2020. Currently the exiating waters <br />could supply about 43 million fisherman-days of activity, or the capacity <br />is somewhat in excess of the total requirement. However, it must be <br />pointed out that this - while being the case for the basin in total - <br />is not the case for all of the subbasins. The demand in the Lower <br />Missouri Subbasin currently exceeds the capacity and it is estimated <br />that for the lower half of the basin the 2020 demand will exceed the <br />capacity. Similarly, for hunting in the Missouri Basin, there are <br />currently about 16 million hunter-days enjoyed and this is about the <br />overall capacity of the Missouri Basin to furnish hunting. Here again, <br />the larger or more dense population in t,he lower basin creates hunting <br />demands in excess of the current capacity, and some excess of capacity <br />exists in the upper basin. The future requirement for hunting is <br />estimated to amount to about 42 million hunter-days annually. Approximately <br />10 percent of the hunting and fishing is by non-residents of the basin. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />28 <br />