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    More People Fish than Play Golf and Baseball Combined!

    By torontojim  |  Posted August 5, 2009  |  Toronto, Ontario
     

    Did you know that more people fish than play golf and baseball combined in the United States!

     

     

      FISHING DEMOGRAPHICS   
    Participation:
    • 44.4 million Americans ages 7 and older fish2 (An estimated 50 million fish including all age groups).
    • One out of every six U.S. residents 16 and older fish.1
    • 25 percent of U.S. males fish, and 8 percent of U.S. females fish. 1
    • Excluding those who fished the Great Lakes, freshwater anglers account for 82 percent of all anglers.1
    • Anglers spend an average of 16 days fishing and take an average of 13 fishing trips annually.1
    • Anglers 16 and older took 365 million freshwater fishing trips in 2001 totaling 467 million days. Including saltwater anglers, 437 million fishing trips totaling 557 million days were taken. 1
      Residents of the South provided the biggest increase in fishing (21 percent) in the United States.
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