FOREWORD 



Fishing and hunting are among the Nation's 

 most popular outdoor sports. The second National 

 Survey of Fishing and Hunting in the United 

 States, covering the calendar year 1960, shows that 

 these traditional American activities are even more 

 significant now to our national economy and way 

 of life than they were in 1955, the year covered by 

 the first survey. The 1960 survey reveals millions 

 of participants who spend billions of dollars, hun- 

 dreds of millions of days and travel billions of miles 

 to enjoy sport fishing and hunting. Millions of 

 American families take advantage of these outdoor 

 recreational sports. Fishing and hunting are en- 

 joyed by every member of the family — female as 

 well as male; the very young and elderly as well as 

 those in the prime of life. 



Our people have turned in ever-increasing num- 

 bers to the healthful out-of-doors. As industrial 

 technology, automation, and other advances have 

 increased wages and shortened the workweek, the 

 time and money available for recreation have con- 

 tributed to this change. With this additional free 



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 September 1961 



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time, a large proportion of our citizens go outdoors 

 and test their sporting skills against the denizens of 

 the deep, the streams and the woods. 



It should be noted that the cost of this report and 

 the survey on which it is based was borne entirely 

 from funds derived from excise taxes on sporting 

 arms and ammunition and on certain types of fish- 

 ing tackle. These funds, except for administrative 

 costs, are allocated to the States for fish and wildlife 

 restoration work. The funds expended for this 

 survey would have been so allocated had they not 

 been used for the survey, made at the request of the 

 States. Consequently, the expenditure of funds on 

 this survey has had no effect whatever on the 

 Federal budget. 



The knowledge gained from the 1960 survey is in- 

 valuable in administering and planning for the fish 

 and wildlife resources of our Nation. Such knowl- 

 edge is essential to State and Federal agencies which 

 must manage fish and wildlife populations so as to 

 meet the requirements of our ever-growing human 

 population for sport fishing and hunting. 



Director, (J \J 



Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife 



United States Department of the Interior 



