Residence of charter boat fishermen in Texas coastal waters.

Texas charter boat (headboat and party boat) fishermen were interviewed while the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department was surveying fishermen in three areas along the Texas coast: (1) Galveston Bay-Freeport area, (2) Aransas Bay-Corpus Christi Bay, and (3) lower Laguna Madre during September 1978-August 1981. The Galveston Bay-Freeport charter boats were primarily utilized year round by fishermen living in counties which border the bay or coast in that area. The majority of fishermen utilizing charter boats in the Aransas Bay-Corpus Christi Bay area were from non-coastal Texas counties. Charter boat utilization in the lower Laguna Madre area was dominated by non-coastal Texas county fishermen during the high use season and by out-of-state fishermen during the low use season.