Interest in Anglings 251 

 the average individual regardless of his age. Moreover, the equipment is 

 no* exac n,g and njay vary from the least'expensive pde-andl feto he 

 most elaborate and expensive rods, reels, and artificL lures 



INTEREST IN ANGLING 



JdZoiZio T^ '"'""V" ^'^''"^ "^y ''^ obtained from the 1955 



SurLys, Inc. of New York C^! ^:;2^:;-tS.::Zl:L!;Z 

 eensuses. The survey of 1960 was eonlueted b/the B^eau f Cen t 

 U. S. Department of Commerce. In both surveys, each of the 48 or 50 

 states was u.cluded in the sample; house calls at 18 to 20 Ao^sand house 



SXtc: loT f °'-'''"°° T r^ P^^^°"^ '' •-- °^ 5" or order 

 y elded about 6a00 interviews with fishermen and more than 3500 inter- 



vews with hunters^ The 1960 Survey found that of 130 milhon persons 



12 years of age and over, 25,323.000 fished (23 per cent). Two^oTo 



everv five persons went fishing or hunting en- both. They spem almos 



2 bilhon seven hundred million dollars ($2,690,872,000) for fisW t "kle 



zr'af/h:p""''or'r"^' "''""^"•^'''^ ^-^p^-^^' ^-d- lodging bo,' 



ex;S;s^"iS3T00for ^^ ^P^^ ^ - --' 



for bait lirlT „ licenses, $1.3 billion for equipment, $573,000,000 



lo 1 J^nL T ' f ""* °*"' *"P '^"P^"^'^^ l'"* "ot including food and 



S vatI^,a7"Pl "■""''' '•' '''"°" ™'^^ bv automobire to fish in 

 if '''^\' lakes and streams. In 1960 the tvpieal fisherman (median 



fo arS Tr ^ I-''' '°°' '■' *"P^' ^°^ '■"> '^^y^' -d drove 2 6 miks 

 to and from i^shing locations. However, the over-all average (mean) ex 



743 8 "T T "''"^ «" fishermen was $106.26 for 16.3 tripes r presenting 

 743.8 miles by automobile. Quite obviously there were big spenders and 

 people who had lots of time to fish at the top of this mounta'in of fishei 

 men who were responsible for making the average costs look less repre- 

 sentative than median costs. ^ 



Supplying the Needs of the Sport Fisherman 



These surveys point up that sport fishing is important not onlv for 

 em^rlTr?"' '" 1 commercial provision of the goods and services 



requn-ed. If we assume that 4 per cent would be a reasonable vield from 

 such a capital outlay, we can assign a minimum capital value of $67.5 

 billion to the sport fishery resources which currently generates $2.7 billion 

 of annual mcome. Stroud.'^ using the statistics from the 1955 survev and 

 from Current Business for July 1956," showed tliat Americans 'spent 

 almost twice as much money for fishing as for dental care, medical care 

 hospitalization insurance, personal legal services, higher education or 



