The 2022 Special Report on Fishing from The Outdoor Foundation and the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation was released with the fishing participation numbers in the United States for 2021, showing a slight decrease in participation from 2020.
Research shows that 17 percent of the U.S. population ages six and up went fishing at least once during 2021. This is one percent less than in 2020 but still 2.3 million more people than the pre-pandemic numbers in 2019.
The pandemic in 2020 locked down indoor activities and had people changing gears to find ways to get outside in a safe way, boosting outdoor activity participation numbers across the board.
“It seems like the participation increases are sticking around, and that is what we are interested in, and that is going to be really important for boating and fishing to find out if the increases in participation that happened because of Covid are going to stick around once Covid is gone,” said Outdoor Industry Association’s Research Director, Kelly Davis.
The research was then broken down by category to gauge the type of fishing people participated in and who participated. The study kept track of age, ethnicity, gender, education, and income to better understand what makes...
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