Current And Projected Tourist Demand For Saltwater Recreational Fisheries In Florida

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• Personal Author:
  Bell, Frederick W.
• Corporate Authors:
  Florida Sea Grant College.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  Sea Grant ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Sea Grant Program:
  FLSGP (Florida Sea Grant)
• Description:
  The central purpose of this report is to estimate the current and projected demand by tourists visiting Florida for saltwater recreational fisheries. Despite the economic size of the tourist segment of the recreational fishing industry in Florida, not enough is known about the critical variables that influence participation in saltwater angling. A survey of 3,900 tourists visiting Florida between August 1991 and February 1992 revealed higher participation rates among males, non-whites, those arriving by auto, those exposed to fishing as a child, and those making more trips to Florida per year than those with opposite demographic characteristics​. Also participation rises with age, but declines after age 60. Finally, higher income tourists have a lower participation rate than those with relatively lower income. Tourist saltwater anglers yielded an expenditure figure (i.e., retail and service sales) of $1.306 billion dollars in 1991.
• Keywords:
  Saltwater fishing
• Series:
  Sea Grant report   SGR-111
• Sea Grant Document Number:
  FLSGP-T-93-001
• Document Type:
  Technical Report
• Place as Subject:
  Florida
• Rights Information:
  Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:33a60635dfd1d83f961700a5de8884b702afd2a5358da86266aa61af053c7286
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/44291/noaa_44291_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.03 MB ]