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Fishing Highlights In 2006, 30.0 million U.S. residents 16 years old and older enjoyed a variety of fishing opportunities throughout the United States. Anglers fished 517 million days and took 403 million fishing trips. They had $42.0 billion in fishing-related expenses during the year. Freshwater anglers numbered 25.4 million. They fished 433 million days and took 337 million trips to freshwater in 2006. Freshwater anglers spent $26.3 billion on freshwater fishing trips and equipment. Saltwater fishing attracted 7.7 million anglers who enjoyed 67 million trips on 86 million days. They spent $8.9 billion on their saltwater trips and equipment. Fishing Million 35 517 million Anglers Freshwater Saltwater Total Fishing Anglers . . . . . . . . 30.0 million Freshwater . . . . 25.4 million Saltwater . . . . . 7.7 million 30 25 403 million Days . . . . . . . . . . 516.8 million Freshwater . . . . 433.3 million Saltwater . . . . . 85.7 million 20 15 10 5 433 337 Trips . . . . . . . . . . 403.5 million Freshwater . . . . 336.5 million Saltwater . . . . . 67.0 million Expenditures . . . $42.0 billion Freshwater . . . . 26.3 billion Saltwater . . . . . 8.9 billion Nonspecific . . . 6.8 billion 0 Total Freshwater Saltwater 86 67 Anglers Days Trips Note: Detail does not add to total because of multiple responses and nonresponse. Note: Detail does not add to total because of multiple responses and nonresponse. Source: Tables 1, 12, 13, and 16. 8 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Fishing Expenditures Anglers spent $42.0 billion in 2006 including $17.9 billion on travel-related items—43 percent of all fishing expenditures. Food and lodging accounted for $6.3 billion, 35 percent of all triprelated costs. Spending on transportation totaled $5.0 billion, 28 percent of trip-related expenditures. Other trip expenditures, such as land use fees, guide fees, equipment rental, boating expenses, and bait, cost anglers $6.6 billion—37 percent of all trip expenses. Total Fishing Expenditures Total fishing expenditures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total trip-related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Food and lodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other trip costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total equipment expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fishing equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Auxiliary equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $42.0 billion $17.9 billion 6.3 billion 5.0 billion 6.6 billion $18.8 billion 5.3 billion 0.8 billion 12.6 billion Fishing equipment expenditures totaled $18.8 billion in 2006, 45 percent of all fishing expenditures. Anglers spent $5.3 billion on fishing equipment, such as rods, reels, tackle boxes, depth finders, and artificial lures and flies. This amounted to 28 percent of all equipment expenditures. Auxiliary equipment expenditures, which includes camping equipment, binoculars, and special fishing clothing, totaled $779 million—4 percent of equipment costs. Expenditures for special equipment, such as boats, vans, and cabins, were $12.6 billion—67 percent of all equipment expenditures. Anglers also spent a considerable amount on other fishing-related items, such as land leasing and ownership, membership dues, contributions, licenses, stamps, and permits. Land leasing and ownership spending totaled $4.6 billion, which is 11 percent of all expenditures. Expenditures on magazines, books, membership dues, contributions, licenses, stamps, tags, and permits were $776 million. Total other fishing expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magazines, books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Membership dues and contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Land leasing and ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Licenses, stamps, tags, and permits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Source: Table 12. Nonspecific 16% $6.8 billion Fishing Expenditures by Type of Fishing (Total expenditures: $42.0 billion) Saltwater 21% $8.9 billion Percent of Total Fishing Expenditures (Total expenditures: $42.0 billion) Freshwater 63% $26.3 billion $5.4 billion 0.1 billion 0.2 billion 4.6 billion 0.5 billion Other 13% Equipment 45% Trip-related 43% U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation 9
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Table 10. Selected Characteristics
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Table 12. Expenditures for Fishing:
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Table 14. Trip and Equipment Expend
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Table 22. Special Equipment Expendi
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Table 25. Freshwater Anglers and Da
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Table 29. Hunters and Days of Hunti
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Table 32. Boats and Boat Launches U
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Table 37. Hunters Using Bows and Ar
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Table 41. Participation in Wildlife
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Table 44. Expenditures for Wildlife
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Table 54. Anglers and Hunters by Sp
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Table 58. Days of Hunting by Type o
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Table 60. Freshwater (Except Great
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Table 63. Days of Fishing by State
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Table 67. Participation in Away-Fro
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Appendix A. Defi nitions Annual hou
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Appendix B. 2005 Participation of 6
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Table B-3. Most Recent Year of Hunt
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Table B-5. Anglers and Hunters 6 to
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Table B-7. Selected Characteristics
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Table B-9. Participants in Wildlife
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Table B-11. Participants in Wildlif
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Appendix C
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Table C-1. Major Characteristics of
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Table C-2. Anglers and Hunters by C
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Table C-4. Comparison of Major Find
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Table C-5. Anglers and Hunters by C
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Appendix D. Sample Design and Stati
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