Recreational Fishing

Canada

2000 Survey of Recreational Fishing in Canada
Survey Highlights

Fishing Effort

Fishing is a major recreational activity in Canada, given its abundance of freshwater and its extensive coastlines. Adult anglers fished a total of 47.9 million days in Canada in 2000 (Table 4). Over a third of these days were spent in Ontario followed by a quarter in Quebec. Most fishing activity (93.8%) took place in freshwater.

Resident anglers fishing within their home jurisdictions accounted for 86% of all days fished in 2000. Only 2.7% of total fishing effort was attributed to Canadians fishing in other jurisdictions, while foreign anglers accounted for the remaining 11.3% of days fished in 2000. Resident anglers fished an average of 15.3 days, while nonresident Canadians averaged 7.3 days and non-Canadians 7.0 days.