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    Fishing Access Areas

    Metadata Updated: March 22, 2026

    The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department maintains developed fishing access areas. These sites provide public access to waters in Vermont for shore fishing opportunities and launching of water craft. The department manages access areas with concrete or gravel ramps for launching and retrieving of boats. Additionally, there are access areas where non-motorized vessels can easily be launched. All access areas are open to hunting, trapping, fishing, and boating. Management and administration of all access areas is primarily funded through the sale of motorboat registration fees and the Sport Fish Restoration Program (SFR). The SFR Program was created to restore and better manage America's declining fishery resources and was modeled after the successful Wildlife Restoration Program. Excise taxes on fishing equipment, motorboat and small engine fuels, import duties, and interest are collected and appropriated from the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department uses these monies for acquiring land as well as developing and maintaining boat and fishing access areas. These excise tax dollars, coupled with motorboat registration fees, have been the predominate source of funding for the access program over the last 20 years. Prior to the use of motorboat registration fees, angler license dollars were used in a similar fashion.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 2, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Vermont Open Geodata Portal

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 2, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2026
    Publisher Fish & Wildlife
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2016-10-26T14:41:22.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2022-03-24T11:41:06.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Categories "Environment", "Boundaries", "Environmental"
    Harvest Object Id 22b58143-f76a-4afb-9d7b-e2d7f3a0ec9a
    Harvest Source Id 24b4ec67-cad4-4235-b8af-afaa3907ff2e
    Harvest Source Title Vermont Open Geodata Portal
    Homepage URL https://geodata.vermont.gov/datasets/VTANR::fishing-access-areas
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -108.0194,-79.1132,-6.6331,39.2432
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5c0eba86565a528011e8626fa21278068e161642bc784900955b1f1841c470f5
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -108.0194, -79.1132, -108.0194, 39.2432, -6.6331, 39.2432, -6.6331, -79.1132, -108.0194, -79.1132}

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