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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the agency’s Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) program will provide more than $20 million in grant funding for 19 states to construct, renovate and maintain marinas and other boating facilities for outdoor recreation. Under the BIG program, more than $2.8 million will fund projects in 19 states under the BIG Tier 1 subprogram, and ...

Boating is one of the more popular recreational activities in the world. In the United States alone, there are approximately 12 million registered boats to prove it, of which an estimated 560,000 are at least 26 feet long. When putting these numbers into perspective we begin to think of the incredible demand there is for marina operators to provide sufficient ...