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Recreation Conflicts And Compatibility Between Motorboat Owners, Personal Watercraft Owners, And Coastal Landowners Along New York's Great Lakes Coast
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2000
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Description:The popularity of personal watercraft has stirred controversy both for and against their use in state and National Parks, as well as across many waterways and lakes of the United States. How you view personal watercraft use and operator behavior depends, in part, on whether you own and operate a personal watercraft or not. Both recreation conflict and compatibility have been reported between personal watercraft users, motorboaters, and landowners in a variety of circumstances. Some of the recreation conflicts arise from personal watercraft users interfering with the experience of motorboaters by speeding, jumping their boat wakes, or crossing their boating path. Reportedly personal watercraft users interfere with coastal landowners because of the noise of the personal watercraft, potential safety problems near other recreational users, and some privacy issues of landowners. Recreation conflict is defined as interference to a user, who is trying to achieve a goal in a recreation activity, and the interference is due to another recreational user's behavior (Jacob and Schreyer 1980). Personal watercraft users are newer users in the New York Great Lakes in comparison to the traditional users, such as motorboaters and coastal landowners. The potential for interference between personal watercraft owners, motorboats and landowners was studied to compare the conflict factors among the different users and across groups with different activity combinations, such as landowners who owned a personal watercraft.
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Sea Grant Document Number:NYSGI-S-00-002
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