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Based on current <br /> conditions, each <br /> year recreational <br /> activity dependent <br /> The Sebastian Inlet region is and other recreational activities upon the <br /> one of the premier saltwater that are important to the Sebastian Inlet <br /> recreation areas on Florida's regional economy would likely <br /> east coast. Every year, decline. generates $93 <br /> hundreds of thousands local The Sebastian Inlet District, million in business <br /> residents and tourists boat, which is responsible for <br /> fish, swim and surf the waters ensuring that the inlet remains revenues for <br /> of the Indian River Lagoon navigable for boaters, recently regional businesses <br /> and the Atlantic Ocean in the sponsored a study to measure <br /> area. The Sebastian Inlet itself the regional economic benefits creates $48 million <br /> is vital in supporting these of maintaining the inlet. Worth of annual <br /> activities, particularly fishing <br /> and surfing. Not only does The study estimated how income for regional <br /> the inlet provide direct access recreational boating and other businesses and <br /> to popular offshore fishing activities dependent upon the <br /> spots, but it also helps support inlet support the economies residents <br /> healthy aquatic ecosystems of local communities within <br /> and fisheries in the lagoon the political boundaries of the supports an <br /> by allowing saltwater to flow Sebastian Inlet District. Other estimated 970 local <br /> into the lagoon and mix with parts of the study measured <br /> freshwater from inland springs, the increase in costs for jobs, <br /> streams and rivers. regional boaters and fishermen <br /> to access offshore waters via generates about $8 <br /> Without the inlet, boaters in other inlets if the Sebastian million in state and <br /> the area could not access the Inlet were not navigable, <br /> ocean, and the ecosystem of and how the presence of the local tax and fee <br /> the lagoon near the inlet could inlet influences local property revenues <br /> not support marine fisheries in values. Lastly, the analysis <br /> the area to the extent that they estimated the economic value <br /> do today. As a result, fishing <br /> r. <br /> 1 <br />