the Canadian Provinces, requested this survey as 

 well as the similar survey in 1955. This Associa- 

 tion recommended that the U.S. Fish and Wild- 

 life Service carry out this survey similar to the one 

 in 1955. After approval by the Bureau of the Bud- 

 get, the Bureau of the Census, the principal data- 

 collection agency of the Federal Government, con- 

 ducted this second National survey of fishermen 

 and hunters. 



WHAT THE SURVEY MEASURED 



The National Survey of Fishing and Hunting 

 measures the amount of money and time spent 

 and the number of trips made by American fisher- 

 men and hunters to participate in these sports. 

 It shows the number of these sportsmen by house- 

 holds and by their chief social and economic 

 characteristics — geographic area, population den- 

 sity, age, sex, occupation, and income. In addi- 

 tion, it shows: (1) the number of fresh-water fisher- 

 men fishing in man-made ponds and reservoirs, in 

 natural lakes and ponds, and in rivers and streams; 

 (2) the number of salt-water fishermen fishing in 

 the surf, in bays and sounds, in tidal rivers and 

 streams, and in the adjoining sea; (3) the num- 



ber of hunters who hunt for big game, small game, 

 waterfowl, and mourning doves; (4) the number 

 of ducks bagged, and (5) expenditures on boats 

 and motors and boat launching, automobile ex- 

 penditures, expenditures on other types of trans- 

 portation, other trip expenditures, and daily en- 

 trance fees. 



Exact comparability was not maintained with 

 1955 data in all detail due to the addition of a 

 great deal of new information, the desirability of 

 showing certain expenditures separately, and other 

 changes since 1955. The most obvious change 

 since 1955 is the addition of two new States, 

 Alaska and Hawaii. In some cases, the classifi- 

 cations used in 1955 were changed for statistical 

 comparability with other data. This is no im- 

 pairment. Details of these differences are shown, 

 or described, at the back of this booklet, in Ap- 

 pendix C. The net result of these and other 

 changes is that (1) expenditures on food show a 

 greater increase than would have occurred if the 

 1955 procedures had been used, and (2) expendi- 

 tures for "Bait, Guide Fees and Other Trip Ex- 

 penses" are lower than they would have been 

 under the 1955 procedures. 



