The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has modified some of its plans to expand hunting and fishing on five federal refuges in Rhode Island after considering more than 1,600 comments and two petitions.

At Sachuest Point, in Middletown, the agency has dropped plans for any gun hunting and the size of a proposed hunting area — to be used now for only supervised archery hunts three to five days a year — has been reduced to exclude all areas near the town beaches, campground and the salt marsh.

“After hearing many comments, we thought we would pull back from 227 acres to 150 acres,” Karrie Schwaab, a spokeswoman for the service, said Monday.

Schwaab said it was never the service’s intention to open the Sachuest Point refuge up to general hunting but rather to offer supervised…